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by jaegerpicker 4253 days ago
I'm personally very happy with golang. We are a python shop with some bit of Java on the backend and we decided to try golang to get past a few python performance hurdles. So I wrote a smallish API/data importer as a first application. The results have been fantastic. Nearly as productive as python, better in my opinion support for a functional paradigm, much faster, and of course really easy and great concurrency support. Sure python and django have a good bit more tooling and third party libs but go is gaining ground. One major hurtle I faced was the lack of a good visual debugging IDE. I'm using the go plugin for Intellij but it's not really that good. If go keeps gaining popularity and Intellij releases first class support, like they have with python ruby and node, it will really help the language ecosystem.