[dith3r]

Python is fast at parsing JSON, Go had hard time to match parsing speed of it. Additionally you have PyPy to help.

[mattbillenstein]

Nod. https://gist.github.com/mattbillenstein/34cf2907390102ffbabd...

[Filligree]

Python is fast at doing anything that doesn't involve running Python.

That's an important caveat. Python's C JSON parser library is super-fast, but if you want to use the data for anything but a simple equality check afterwards, it'll be slow as molasses.

Or you'll write a C extension for it...