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Pros of Golang
Pros of Python
Pros of Stan
  • 553
    High-performance
  • 397
    Simple, minimal syntax
  • 364
    Fun to write
  • 303
    Easy concurrency support via goroutines
  • 273
    Fast compilation times
  • 195
    Goroutines
  • 181
    Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy
  • 151
    Simple compile build/run procedures
  • 137
    Backed by google
  • 137
    Great community
  • 53
    Garbage collection built-in
  • 47
    Built-in Testing
  • 44
    Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc
  • 40
    Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C
  • 37
    Awesome to Develop
  • 26
    Used for Docker
  • 26
    Flexible interface system
  • 25
    Great concurrency pattern
  • 24
    Deploy as executable
  • 21
    Open-source Integration
  • 19
    Easy to read
  • 17
    Fun to write and so many feature out of the box
  • 17
    Go is God
  • 14
    Powerful and simple
  • 14
    Easy to deploy
  • 14
    Its Simple and Heavy duty
  • 14
    Concurrency
  • 13
    Best language for concurrency
  • 11
    Safe GOTOs
  • 11
    Rich standard library
  • 10
    Clean code, high performance
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 10
    High performance
  • 9
    Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance
  • 8
    Cross compiling
  • 8
    Single binary avoids library dependency issues
  • 8
    Hassle free deployment
  • 7
    Used by Giants of the industry
  • 7
    Simple, powerful, and great performance
  • 7
    Gofmt
  • 6
    Garbage Collection
  • 5
    WYSIWYG
  • 5
    Very sophisticated syntax
  • 5
    Excellent tooling
  • 4
    Keep it simple and stupid
  • 4
    Widely used
  • 4
    Kubernetes written on Go
  • 2
    No generics
  • 1
    Looks not fancy, but promoting pragmatic idioms
  • 1
    Operator goto
  • 1.2K
    Great libraries
  • 964
    Readable code
  • 847
    Beautiful code
  • 788
    Rapid development
  • 691
    Large community
  • 438
    Open source
  • 393
    Elegant
  • 282
    Great community
  • 273
    Object oriented
  • 221
    Dynamic typing
  • 77
    Great standard library
  • 60
    Very fast
  • 55
    Functional programming
  • 51
    Easy to learn
  • 46
    Scientific computing
  • 35
    Great documentation
  • 29
    Productivity
  • 28
    Easy to read
  • 28
    Matlab alternative
  • 24
    Simple is better than complex
  • 20
    It's the way I think
  • 19
    Imperative
  • 18
    Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
  • 18
    Free
  • 17
    Powerfull language
  • 17
    Machine learning support
  • 16
    Fast and simple
  • 14
    Scripting
  • 12
    Explicit is better than implicit
  • 11
    Ease of development
  • 10
    Clear and easy and powerfull
  • 9
    Unlimited power
  • 8
    Import antigravity
  • 8
    It's lean and fun to code
  • 7
    Print "life is short, use python"
  • 7
    Python has great libraries for data processing
  • 6
    Rapid Prototyping
  • 6
    Readability counts
  • 6
    Now is better than never
  • 6
    Great for tooling
  • 6
    Flat is better than nested
  • 6
    Although practicality beats purity
  • 6
    I love snakes
  • 6
    High Documented language
  • 6
    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
  • 6
    Fast coding and good for competitions
  • 5
    Web scraping
  • 5
    Lists, tuples, dictionaries
  • 5
    Great for analytics
  • 4
    Easy to setup and run smooth
  • 4
    Easy to learn and use
  • 4
    Plotting
  • 4
    Beautiful is better than ugly
  • 4
    Multiple Inheritence
  • 4
    Socially engaged community
  • 4
    Complex is better than complicated
  • 4
    CG industry needs
  • 4
    Simple and easy to learn
  • 3
    It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
  • 3
    Flexible and easy
  • 3
    Many types of collections
  • 3
    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
  • 3
    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
  • 3
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
  • 3
    Pip install everything
  • 3
    List comprehensions
  • 3
    No cruft
  • 3
    Generators
  • 3
    Import this
  • 3
    Powerful language for AI
  • 2
    Can understand easily who are new to programming
  • 2
    Should START with this but not STICK with This
  • 2
    A-to-Z
  • 2
    Because of Netflix
  • 2
    Only one way to do it
  • 2
    Better outcome
  • 2
    Batteries included
  • 2
    Good for hacking
  • 2
    Securit
  • 1
    Procedural programming
  • 1
    Best friend for NLP
  • 1
    Slow
  • 1
    Automation friendly
  • 1
    Sexy af
  • 0
    Ni
  • 0
    Keep it simple
  • 0
    Powerful
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    Cons of Golang
    Cons of Python
    Cons of Stan
    • 42
      You waste time in plumbing code catching errors
    • 25
      Verbose
    • 23
      Packages and their path dependencies are braindead
    • 16
      Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly
    • 15
      Dependency management when working on multiple projects
    • 10
      Automatic garbage collection overheads
    • 8
      Uncommon syntax
    • 7
      Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)
    • 5
      Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)
    • 3
      Best programming language
    • 1
      A failed experiment to combine c and python
    • 53
      Still divided between python 2 and python 3
    • 28
      Performance impact
    • 26
      Poor syntax for anonymous functions
    • 22
      GIL
    • 19
      Package management is a mess
    • 14
      Too imperative-oriented
    • 12
      Hard to understand
    • 12
      Dynamic typing
    • 12
      Very slow
    • 8
      Indentations matter a lot
    • 8
      Not everything is expression
    • 7
      Incredibly slow
    • 7
      Explicit self parameter in methods
    • 6
      Requires C functions for dynamic modules
    • 6
      Poor DSL capabilities
    • 6
      No anonymous functions
    • 5
      Fake object-oriented programming
    • 5
      Threading
    • 5
      The "lisp style" whitespaces
    • 5
      Official documentation is unclear.
    • 5
      Hard to obfuscate
    • 5
      Circular import
    • 4
      Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
    • 4
      The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
    • 4
      Not suitable for autocomplete
    • 2
      Meta classes
    • 1
      Training wheels (forced indentation)
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      What is Golang?

      Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

      What is Stan?

      A state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Used for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.

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