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by computerex 12 hours ago
I think it's because python is far more approachable/ubiquitous than go/rust. It's the entry level language for many people from all disciplines of life. Scientific community uses it, data science uses it.

Golang/rust however are very convenient to distribute. Small, portable, fast exe's are very nice. With agentic coding golang/rust are now accessible to a lot more people.

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> python is far more approachable

I see where you're coming from, but to be honest I respectfully disagree. If all you mean to do is writing small one-off scripts then sure Python may be the right tool[1], but when you're doing something more complicated Go is just simpler. And for an LLM, Go is even better for all the reasons mentioned in sibling comments and OP.

[1]: I tend to rely more on Bash, though...