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[ebnehwf]

Go is created by Google.

Google fired 12, 000 employees this year.

12, 000 developers declared that Python will replace Go.

Coincidence?

[MrHitmancheg]

+12, 000 carpenters declare that screwdrivers will replace hammers.

[ogpurpledaddy]

Wait, they refer to the 92% statistic as "developers say python will replace Go" and towards the end the real statistic is 92% of people are satisfied or above with Go. Am I missing another statistic here?! One other stat is "what did you use instead of Go" that's barring IF they used something other than Go. And the other is IF they don't use Go, "what prevented you from using it". WHAT IS EVEN GOIN ON?!

[cowslaw]

What I learned: anyone and I mean anyone can write an article

[Lemmy]

Saying that python will replace Go is like saying that solar energy is going to replace cars lol

[cristobalzuluaga]

that article is as crazy as someone saying that you can use python and be efficient for every kind of job

[az]

It's like saying that horses will replace conveyor belts. I'm not asking why, I'm asking what were they smoking.

[ANONAAAAAAAAA]

As a backend engineer, I no longer give a fuck about which language to use for performance.
The bottleneck is almost always databases, therefore, composing good queries with appropriate indexes is a lot more relevant then using "fast" languages for improving performance or response time IMO.

[mintx]

php will soon replace rust as the best language to write linked lists in

[peppybocan]

The problem with python is that it allows you to write the shittiest code imaginable to get things running, but as you mature, you start to realize that the advantage it gives you, is also its biggest drawback. The notion that Python has been designed for cloud, when cloud did not even exist back then (1991!) is ludicrous, taking into account that Python is a single-threaded environment and can't scale past a single core without extreme hack arounds is laughable.

[ardnys]

the incoherent thought process of this article feels like nightmares i had as a kid

[_scourvinate]

It feels like this article would make more sense if the languages were swapped. Which might be the actual intention for all we know 😂

[TwoStackedCRTTubes]

"What if 12, 000 developers declared that Python will replace Go as the most used programming language in the world? "
In all ranks for most used languages that I can find, Python is a lot more used than Go. This got to be written by chat gippity

[Nick-tmsw]

If you just swap "Go" and "Python" in that article it actually makes some sense. Its like the author accidently typed "Go" every time they meant "Python" and vice versa.

[talis]

Really have to try to think of a more ridiculous thing to compare to than Python. What I liked about Go is that you can just compile a statically linked executable and run it almost anywhere. Used it on some weird MIPS system once and it just worked. Python wouldn't even have fit in the couple MB of space that thing had.

[lucasoliveira-xsyh]

I really admire the self-esteem of pythonistas

[stephencamilo]

This phenomenon is widely recognized in linguistics: the artificial creation of a language, as seen with languages like Esperanto, tends to fade over time. A similar principle applies to programming languages—they need to be organically developed and naturally expanded by their creators.
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[mitchelvalentino]

I found learning Go to be easier than learning Python.

[johnettipio]

This is like saying that screwdrivers will replace hammers. They are both used for different things.

[ryshask]

LOL Python is 'designed' to help developers take advantage of cloud development/deployment... This is gold... The creater maintainer of virtulenv left python because it was hot garbage. Java, Go and other binarys are so much easier to deploy.