On: Why we switched from Python to Go

[yeukhon]

> Python allows you to get pretty creative with the code you’re writing. For instance, you can:

> Use MetaClasses to self-register classes upon code initialization

Avoid metaclasses....

> Swap out True and False

Not possible anymore

> Add functions to the list of built-in functions

What are the practical reasons?

> Overload operators via magic methods

Useful but also recommend don’t. I can see someone writting numpy would do that, but most applications don’t have a reason

Profile profile profile! Find the bottlenecks.

[tschellenbach → yeukhon]

Django uses metaclasses quite nicely actually for the the Forms and Model definitions.

[yen223 → yeukhon]

"Avoid metaclasses...."

Good luck finding a Python library that doesn't use metaclasses anywhere!

[mrgriffin → yen223]

How about Requests?

https://github.com/requests/requests/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...