[andrewgodwin]

I would agree with some of the points - speed (which is stretched over two points), concurrency, and the ability not to do magic as easily, but several of the points (compile time, available developers, strong ecosystem) are not a "versus Python" at all but rather against other languages.

Personally, I see a language like Go and Python as solving different spaces. I wouldn't write a lot of website business logic in Go, and I wouldn't write a low-level TCP redirection daemon in Python.

[tschellenbach]

Yeah there are some use cases where Python is a clear winner. For us Python seemed like a good fit initially. Traffic was low and the API didn't provide more advanced features where Python's speed becomes an issue. (Ranking, aggregation)