When it comes to ease and convenience for the developer and accelerating the speed of development, two programming languages rise above the pack—Python and Go. Today Python is a mainstay of scripting, ...

US education non-profit the Khan Academy has completed 500,000 lines of code in Google's Go programming language to replace its backend server previously written on Python 2. Kevin Dangoor, a ...

Citing a lack of performance when it comes to concurrent workloads, Google decided it needed to toss out the standard Python interpreter in favour of a new approach that transcompiles Python into Go.

Your average software engineer is still in love with Python. Married, even. But not those at Google, Uber, Dropbox, Soundcloud, Slack, and Medium. The programmers at top corporations have long fallen ...