[goliatone]

I think the biggest win of Go over Python is around the single binary distribution, which I guess you included with deployments. But it truly deserves a mention on its own and it’s a major point over other (most?) languages. It really makes up for a lot of the shortcomings of Go as a language IMO. But I enjoy Go best for building system tools, the single binary doesn’t shine as much once you involve containers at which point the friction between say a Python/Node container and a Go container is pretty much the same

[weberc2]

That’s definitely up there. As for containers, I think Go’s static compilation story actually has some important ramifications for containers, namely I don’t need a set of base images for doing development since I can just toss a binary into the container and run it there (running in the container is useful because our local dev setup uses Docker Compose to orchestrate the microservices). If we could do this with Python it would simplify our CI and our development process by a good bit. And of course Go images are about a factor of magnitude smaller than Python images to boot!

[agentultra]

Turns out creating a static binary distribution can be done in Python without containers [0].

[0] http://www.pyinstaller.org/

[rpeden]

The tiny size of an Alpine + Go container is still nice compared to a typical Node or Python container, though.

[weberc2]

Try the Go/scratch combo (2.5MB): https://weberc2.bitbucket.io/posts/golang-docker-scratch-app...