Why we switched from Python to Go
Why does anyone write web apps in Python? PHP? Ruby?<p>Modern Java and Go are so much faster than the alternatives that it&#x27;s stupid to consider anything else if performance is important.<p>Golang and Java can manage over a half million HTTP responses a second. Node is pretty fast but why bother when Java is many times more mature in features, tooling, and  and supports concurrency... And uses less ram and is usually faster. People moan about the &quot;huge&quot; Java runtime when JavaScript uses 3-5x more memory and has a huge runtime of its own.<p>All the big companies are using Java and Go almost exclusively for high volume endpoints and it blows my mind the amount of mental gymnastics some companies go through to avoid following suit.<p>Java has come a long way since J2EE. These days it&#x27;s asynchronous, non-blocking, serverless, etc..  pretty much all the acronyms thrown around about node except its not JavaScript, which IMO is a huge win.