[Chicago] Golang vs Python slides

[Thomas Johnson]

This stackoverflow post seems to indicate that it's not really possible to
call go routines directly from python:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12443203/writing-a-python-extension-in-go-golang

The suggestion in the comments of using some kind of RPC as a workaround
seems like a practical alternative.

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 1:46 PM Matthew Erickson <matt at soulrobotic.com>
wrote:

>  Go really doesn't like being an extension language; it's much happier
> and easier to work with it being the main() for the program.
>
> -- Matt
>
> On May 16, 2015, at 12:35, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   The more I think about it, the more I wish I had infinite free time to
>> just re-write it in Go and see what happens :P
>>
>>
>  Me too, and infinite brains to go with the time. :-D
>
>  A followup question would be:
>
>  Give we have ways to extend CPython in C++ etc. might we have a way to
> architect modules in Go that CPython could import?
>
>  During execution, control would be handed over to Go, so concurrency
> problems might be solved even if the GIL is not actually bypassed.
>
>  Even with GIL, a Go extension module might just be more intuitive and
> easier to maintain, yet Python coders get an API they can use directly?
>
>  Just a thought.
>
> Python controls a Tk process written in tcl, and the wx process written in
> C++ (wxPython), so some kind of bridge to Go stuff seems in the cards.
>
>  Kirby
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>  Chris Foresman
>> chris at chrisforesman.com
>>
>>
>>
>>  On May 15, 2015, at 10:13 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> how about Python *implemented* in Go, what would that look like?
>>
>>
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