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Comment by ilovecaching

Another way to get Go like speed is to use Go. Go has an excellent built in http web server, and unlike Python it comes standard with a bug reducing type system and an easy and intuitive syntax. In fact, the entire specification of the language can be read in an hour by a novice programmer.

Not only that, but Go has best in class editing support in VSCode and Vim, has an official code formatting tool (sorry black), and makes writing concurrent code painless with a syncronous abstraction (sorry asyncio).

Also it may have good response times in a vacuum but there’s still the Python memory tax, startup times (which matter when you need to scale horizontally), and scaling of latency to think about.

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