Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com>: > Python, to its credit, has the nice inclusive property of extensible > interpreters of being friendly to "hang things" onto just like ornaments on > trees. By linking with C/C++-libraries and adding glue/shim code, anything > can be used from Python. This facility and interpretive execution (as Eric > Johnson observed above) makes it a natural for discovery and trying of > things. > > These virtues may seem less so in eventual deployments, at scale, and in > other cases.
True, and connects directly to my recent experience report. Python was the best language to prototype reposurgeon in, but scale pressure forced the move to Go. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20200127185435.GA44021%40thyrsus.com.