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by sp527 2515 days ago
This process took way too long. I've already moved back to Python3 and am super happy with it. The truth is most software doesn't really need the performance benefit Golang offers and you can code up something in Python in at least half to a third of the time it would take in Golang. Aside from agility, there's one other benefit that imo matters a lot: reduced LoC. If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's that you can never really have too few lines of code, provided it achieves the same result as a hypothetical more verbose alternative.

I will admit though that I miss Go's CSP implementation and error-handling convention. Maybe I'll come back to it in the future after they add generics and fix the dependency system.

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