[nick238]

Yeah, I need to take some forget-me-nots when I have to work on the service our system's architect said had to be in Golang, and is constantly undergoing API changes because things keep getting added/changed. It currently serves ~1000 requests per day, with a goal of ~60,000 if we increase uptake across teams. Much traffic. Wow. My last job I built and maintained a group of Python microservices that handled ~500 requests/second (load balanced across ~20 containers).

I have no doubt that Golang is faster and more efficient for HTTP serving, but if you don't have a good specification for your app you're happy with for at least the next however long and need to keep moving crap around, I'd so much prefer Python.

And if I hear some flavor of "compile-time checks are tests/but Python doesn't check types" argument, that person shouldn't be involved in software development.

[jdmoreira]

> And if I hear some flavor of "compile-time checks are tests/but Python doesn't check types" argument, that person shouldn't be involved in software development.

Have you ever even used a powerfull type system? I dont think so