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, ...

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.

Google's Go is the programming language of the year, according to the long-running Tiobe Index, a search-based ranking that gauges the popularity of top and emerging languages among developers. Rather ...