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Re: Grumpy: Go running Python

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This seems like an odd engineering choice. Presumably the effort to create a python->go translator would be non-trivial. Why not just start rewriting components into Go, and migrating them out of Python, leaving python as essentially the presentation layer at most?

Re: Grumpy: Go running Python

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post #5

This seems like an odd engineering choice. Presumably the effort to create a python->go translator would be non-trivial. Why not just start rewriting components into Go, and migrating them out of Python, leaving python as essentially the presentation layer at most?

That's a question I have as well. I'm guessing they have a very massive cpython codebase, and the trade-off was worth it.

Re: Grumpy: Go running Python

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post #5

This seems like an odd engineering choice. Presumably the effort to create a python->go translator would be non-trivial. Why not just start rewriting components into Go, and migrating them out of Python, leaving python as essentially the presentation layer at most?

Maybe there is too much to rewrite.
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