engineer at singularity 6 working on palia, @jordanorelli on twitter. • Ask me anything Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) People often ask me why I have decided that I’d be writing the bulk of my new code in Go, which I started programming in November of 2011 while attending Hacker School. At that time, concurrency was a very hot topic in Hacker School, and we were all trying out dif