Discussion on: Go or Python and why?

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Is he a new developer? Seasoned? What motivated him to pick between those two? What does he want to accomplish?

Yes he is planning on building an app that will high performance, security and a one that will scale as it grows. He is actually considering a dating app . He is from a perl background

Meghan (she/her) • May 19 '18

Is he planning on making this as a desktop app? Because unless the answer is yes, neither of those languages are possible options.

Albert • May 19 '18

No web app

Anton • Dec 1 '18

Go with Go.

Chris James • May 18 '18

If he is considering building something "proper" he should probably try both languages to see what he likes.

9/10 Go will be a lot more performant than python. But quite often it's not the programming language which really limits your performance.

Ben Halpern • May 18 '18 • Edited

Yeah, more details will help. Without knowing more, here are some thoughts:

Python might be more “practical”, all else equal.
Go probably looks better on a resumé, all else equal.
Python has the big academic/data community, and has a ton of supporting libraries for this kind of work.
Go has features built more specifically for scaling and was developed with some “modern” problems in mind. But nothing’s a silver bullet.

Those are some thoughts from what I know of each language/community. I may have oversimplified some of the points but I think that’s a decent gist.