GO vs Python

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, August 25, 2014 9:11:39 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Sure. And your reduction of AWS bills sounds great. Just make sure you
> don't consume the entire extra coder's time doing things that Python
> would have done for you. Go's character model is inferior to Python
> 3's (or at least, it was last time I checked - stuff might have
> changed since then), so you may find yourself doing a lot of
> unnecessary work to make sure your code works correctly. Do be sure to
> test everything thoroughly, with characters from all over Unicode.

Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important thing
in choosing a language!
There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding
an alternative.