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by tptacek 2745 days ago
If you have a very well-defined problem and aren't doing much exploratory programming, Go works reasonably well for demanding math stuff. This describes a lot of cryptography work, and Go is a top-tier language for that. But for exploratory scientific and math programming, Go is pointlessly painful. Julia is a better option, and I would do Python Sage before I did Go, despite not loving Python.