Grumpy: Go running Python! 310 points · submitted Jan 2017 by u/brondsem · archived 80 comments · 91% upvoted · source · other discussions
So is this a kick in Pythons nuts ? (i.e. Google moving away from it)
ihsw 1 points · Jan 2017
Think of it like TypeScript->ES6 transpilation -- you don't have to use Go to write Go apps, but instead Go-based Python.
Error handling will have to be Go-like though, so handling return values instead of raised exceptions.
alehander42 1 points · Jan 2017
It's running slower than Go: it has the runtime overhead