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Re: Golang vs. Python: The Ultimate Battle in DevOps

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Post by theshrike79 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 8:48 AM UTC

(Didn't read the article at all)

As someone who has done devops-y stuff with both, I highly prefer Go just because I can plop in one binary + config file and it'll just work.

With Python I need to install Python, the virtual env manager du jour and all the required packages. And I need to keep them up to date. And everything is just one step harder if I don't, for some reason, have root privileges on the environment in question.

The Go version has been running for days in the time the Python one has all it's dependencies in order =)

Re: Golang vs. Python: The Ultimate Battle in DevOps

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 9:30 AM UTC

peter_l_downs wrote: post #17

This reads like it was written by ChatGPT and provides no specific insight into Golang or Python from a devops perspective. It doesn't talk about which one is easier to use to actually automate your ops (definitely Python) or which one is easier to deploy (definitely Golang.) Flagged, waste of time. I hope we quickly arrive at a social standard where posting AI-written content is viewed as extremely disrespectful to…

Yes, it's a typical article written by ChatGPT, there is almost no content and the same could be written in 4 sentences. I assume the author is running some experiments.

Re: Golang vs. Python: The Ultimate Battle in DevOps

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 9:35 AM UTC

Since the article is meaningless, I'll offer my take on the current situation. There is no battle: Go is used for testing Terraform, for writing Kubernetes operators etc. In CDK, every language except Typescript is a second-class citizen and you need to translate the examples to your language since TS has the best docs. As for Lambda, practically speaking you will use the same language that is used by the rest of the company. As a DevOps,you pretty much have to understand the idioms of a few languages - at least HCL, Python, Java, JS and Go - and TypeScript if you use CDK.

Re: Golang vs. Python: The Ultimate Battle in DevOps

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Post by jtotheh » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:25 AM UTC

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #22

peter_l_downs wrote: post #17

This reads like it was written by ChatGPT and provides no specific insight into Golang or Python from a devops perspective. It doesn't talk about which one is easier to use to actually automate your ops (definitely Python) or which one is easier to deploy (definitely Golang.) Flagged, waste of time. I hope we quickly arrive at a social standard where posting AI-written content is viewed as extremely disrespectful to…

Yes, it's a typical article written by ChatGPT, there is almost no content and the same could be written in 4 sentences. I assume the author is running some experiments.

That was my reaction as well. It really doesn't say much of value, just regurgitates some facts about both languages.