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2019
GoHEP: what can Go do for science?
In the world of High Energy Physics (HEP), software at large is usually written in a mixture of C++ and Python (with dwindling amounts FORTRAN).
This is the result of 2 somewhat conflicting constraints:
- software has to run fast to quickly analyze petabytes of data
- software has to be relatively easy to write (and tweaked) by people with a wide variety of programming skills
What could Go bring to the table?
