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If you use third party Python libraries, the end user is going to have to install them too. Python really isn't a great language to be building consumer distributed command line apps in.

I think a lot of this discussion is focused around custom software or backend software, but for a publicly distributed binary, Go or any other compiled language is much better than Ruby or Python (and especially Javascript).



That isn't quite true re Python, eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/how-can-i-create-a-...

Go might be a special case actually, as it was designed to be a "boring" language to reduce the cost of technology choice. But it is completely interchangeable with similar programming languages (like Python) so evaluating the cost of it vs something else is still a very reasonable thing to do.




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