easy prototyping != scaling Pick one.
> On Jan 27, 2020, at 1:42 PM, Liam Breck <l...@networkimprov.net> wrote: > > > Go mindshare suffers if it's seen as worse for prototyping, and necessary > only for scale. Especially as there are more efficient (albeit more complex) > ways to achieve scale. > >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 10:55 AM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: >> 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/CAKvHMgRSCF5MQW4CTew5kD4KKNkdt4X7c0X1gqDq6Bxyz98ssQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/BE504CA9-0E8F-4B09-8522-CDC7139F264B%40ix.netcom.com.
