| To me: Javascript, Python, and Go aren't all that different. You must know Javascript in this day and age given it's de facto presence on the web. Python is my go to language, especially for mathematical analysis. I can do everything in Python that I used to need Matlab for. From my point of view, pick your favorite modern scripting language and run, the differences really are the libraries, not the languages. I have used Go, but Go just doesn't do it for me. It doesn't offer me anything I can't get, better, in another language especially if I can choose among Python (smaller headspace), Erlang (way better concurrency) or Lisp (way better abtraction power). Erlang is my go to language for concurrency. Once I architect it in Erlang, I probably understand the problem. Lisp is useful when my problem requires powerful abstraction. Otherwise, it gets in the way because people can't resist using that power. Clojure has changed my opinion on this quite a bit, but I don't yet have a big project that fits in it's space quite yet. |