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[William Park]

Thanks.  Perl -> Go is big jump.  I'm currently dabbling in Dart, 
because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter.  Go is next on my list. 
I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile.  Looking 
for something better.

On 11/28/21 10:20 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> On 11/27/21 22:17, William Park via talk wrote:
> 
>> Just curious... Why was Go chosen?  And, more importantly, what other
>> languages were considered and rejected?
> 
> We were looking for a compiled language that did parallelism without
> requiring a PhD in temporal logic. It replaces Perl, where we used lots
> of parallel instances of a rather large monolithic application.
> 
> There are other language in use: Python for ML, Java for big data and
> some I've never heard of, but Go is the major one. Which is cool, as
> it's one of my favorites.
> 
> --dave
> 
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