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		Evbn on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: dl.google.com now served by Go Pythonistas hate Go. Go appeals to people who like the idea and look of Python but got burned by dynamic typing.

DocSavage on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

That's a pretty broad brush and in my case, completely untrue. Go has a lot more than static typing, particularly nice concurrency support and solid libraries even for things like image handling (no need to build PIL).

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