Because you are have an existing app in Python. Because you need some library that is not available in Go. Because you prefer Python. All are valid reasons.
Clearly lol. I think a good-faith interpretation of the question is: "What kinds of things is go's concurrency model suited for where the normal pythonic alternative is cumbersome/less desirable"
Fair question (I'm neither the blog author or the person who linked it here).
I read the short blog entry and the why is not answered.
My own reasons for de-Googling is that I'm uncomfortable with how I pay for Google's services (with my usage data, time, attention, media data, etc). I still have a gmail account because I'm skeptical it won't be reused in a potentially-harmful-to-me-or-others way and because I haven't put in the time to answer that concern and go through the account-deletion steps. I have it automatically send any emails (very few these days) to my ProtonMail account, which I pay for. I'd rather pay a few US dollars a month to a company that at least doesn't seem based on selling more-more-more (Google being an advertisement company).
In the USA "all men are created equal". Owning money should allow you more representation than not owning money. Companies/institutions should not be allowed to spend money on politics, and a flat tax would solve this.
Unless you're a prisoner convicted of a crime. Stating that the founders of the United States owned slaves is not "nihilistic nonsense", it's an important distinction to note that they sought political power for themselves, and no one else. The phrase "all men are created equal" should be interpreted as "all white land-owning men are created equal"
Your elementary school social studies teacher failed you; the statement you referenced is written in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.
The parent OP that I first replied to stated that "Owning money should allow you more representation than not owning money". This is a position not at all worth defending, and completely at odds with the concept of "all men are created equal".
To be fair. I grew up in Ireland and have never lived in the USA. I just admire the protections for the individual that your country aims for. Anyway I appreciate the correction :)
I think I heard that the Carthaginians used to auction off political positions, and the proceeds were effectively the taxes which ran society. While on the surface it sounds like a ridiculous concept, maybe it'd be better if we just cut out all the middlemen. At least policy could be directly connected to the paymasters.
Whild I hate the idea of a zillionaire tax, and I largely think good allocators should allocate, I also recognize that simply pricing things and allowing them to be bought is unstable in many cases.
If you can use it to take over a country it must be stopped.
The rich are always going to manipulate politics. Maybe it'd be better for them to directly influence politics with their names and votes attached to policies, as opposed to hiding in the shadows and using representatives as fall guys.
Think we'd all be better off if the whole lobbying caste was dismantled and there were simpler paper trails.
Why not let Bezos, Musk et al spend £1bil/year to sit on the senate?
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