Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
tl;dr We rewrote some internal Python software in Go, it is now faster.<p>Unfortunately, there is no technical content (which seems endemic to the recent storm of Go articles). Is it faster because is a static language producing machine code? Was their choice of Python packages wrong? How much are the performance improvements caused by knowing better where the bottlenecks are? Were other languages with larger ecosystems considered?