Re: [go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Robin Bartholdson
Well, the top 1 argument is that go is the language of the future ;) https://erikbern.com/2017/03/15/the-eigenvector-of-why-we-moved-from-language-x-to-language-y.html Some reason-to-believes th

Re: [go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Sebastien Binet
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Sebastien Binet wrote: > Christophe, > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Christophe Meessen < > christophe.mees...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm a computer scientist in charge of developing an image processing >> pipeline for telescope images. >> It will

Re: [go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Sebastien Binet
Christophe, On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Christophe Meessen < christophe.mees...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a computer scientist in charge of developing an image processing > pipeline for telescope images. > It will also have a web server and DB connection. > > The project is going th

Re: [go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Peter Mogensen
On 2017-12-06 10:56, Christophe Meessen wrote: > The main opposing arguments are > - everybody uses python in astrophysics > - it is very easy to find someone who knows python > - risk that I, sole Go programmer, might become unavailable And those are important arguments - especially if the "eve

Re: [go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts
Not to be a buzzkill, but… Maybe not having good arguments for using Go in this case should be taken as a signal that Go isn't a good fit? As much as I think Go would be useful for scientific applications, if we want to see that happens, we should work on making Go better for them, not on making up

[go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Tamás Gulácsi
Python is terrible to maintain (lack of static typing or even compile-time argument count (!) check). Write down the interfaces between the pipeline steps and nodes, making each module replaceable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" grou

[go-nuts] [urgent] need aguments to justify use of Go for a scientific application

2017-12-06 Thread Christophe Meessen
Hello, I'm a computer scientist in charge of developing an image processing pipeline for telescope images. It will also have a web server and DB connection. The project is going through reviews by external experts, and the problem I'm facing is that my proposal to use Go is about to be reject