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Do you find Golang to be that much harder to develop in, or is it that Python has libraries whose equivalents are missing in Golang? When would you actually choose one over the other?



Python is generally less to type. Go isn't hard, per se, but it is statically typed and tends to be a bit more verbose.

For me: Python if there's a specific library I want to use, I'm just hacking out a proof of concept, or I'm working with text.

Golang for higher performance, concurrency, stream processing, and cryptography (it has good libraries for that kind of stuff).




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