> I'd love to know why they decided to move in the first place?
They drank the Go Koolaid, like many others, and then came to their senses. Go isn't a silver bullet, it's a trade off,like everything else. Speed is nice. Go is fast. But when you're codebase becomes full of "if err!=nil {" , it starts getting ugly.
Go has showed there is a place for a safe C in Python's clothes. Go just doesn't fulfill that idea though, the language is too rigid to be enjoyable for a lot of people.
They drank the Go Koolaid, like many others, and then came to their senses. Go isn't a silver bullet, it's a trade off,like everything else. Speed is nice. Go is fast. But when you're codebase becomes full of "if err!=nil {" , it starts getting ugly.
Go has showed there is a place for a safe C in Python's clothes. Go just doesn't fulfill that idea though, the language is too rigid to be enjoyable for a lot of people.