Salesforce: Why we ditched Python for Google's Go language in Einstein Analytics

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Salesforce: Why we ditched Python for Google's Go language in Einstein Analytics
Salesforce explains why Google's Go programming language is a better fit than Python and C for Einstein Analytics
October 8, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sales...or-googles-go-language-in-einstein-analytics/

Salesforce recently spent $15.7bn on analytics company Tableau to beef up its own Einstein Analytics platform. Clearly Salesforce sees analytics as critical for its future.
But before the company launched Einstein Analytics in 2017, it overhauled the backend and rebuilt it almost entirely on Google's popular Go, or 'Golang', programming language.

[...] Le Stum in a post on Stack Overflow

"Python is great for quickly writing higher-level applications but doesn't always deliver the high performance needed at an enterprise level. C creates highly performant executables, but adding features takes a lot more time."
Go, on the other hand, is built for huge applications suitable for Google's production systems, so Salesforce decided to shift Einstein Analytics from a hybrid C-Python application to a completely Go application.
One of the big advantages is that Go's cross-platform features make porting code easy.

"If we ever need any of this code in a mobile app, we can cross-compile it to iOS or Android and it will just work," Le Stum notes.
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