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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:29:05 +0000, Pancho wrote:
>
>> On 11/24/24 05:01, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> Using Python means you get uniformity across many disciplines and it's
>>> good enough for most things.  It could have been Perl if it hadn't
>>> gotten stuck in the tar pits, or Ruby, or Go but from whatever twist of
>>> fate occurred it was Python.
>>
>> My niece worked on Python at Twitter. She wasn't complimentary about it
>> either. She then moved onto Go. But that was doing big web-server stuff.
>> Large scale Docker setups, maybe Kubernetes.
>
> Horses for courses. I tasked a new hire with developing an interface to
> Spidertracks.
>
> https://www.spidertracks.com/
>
> I gave him the requirements but didn't specify a language so he did it
> with Go. No big deal other than having to set up a Go environment on the
> build machine. Go is what you would expect from three C programmers who
> hate C++ and I mean that it a good way. Not sure why they put the
> parameter type after the parameter but I can live with that. It's hanging
> in there:
>
> https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
>
> for whatever worth the index has.

I tried a bit of go, and setting up the environment as an amateur was dead 
simple.

Is this also the case for professionals?