Go again

Go is good because of many reasons...

• Unlike JavaScript, Go is just a much nicer language:
• it doesn’t have those JavaScript quirks
• it’s minimalistic and not bloated with legacy
• it’s strongly statically typed, it’s got interfaces, it’s got rather convenient OOP (yes, you can do inheritance and polymorphism in Go, it’s just a little different), and hell, it provides proper signed and unsigned 64 bit integers besides float64!
• Go code is just much easier to read, maintain and collaborate on (and by the way, gofmt is just awesome). The lack of generics may be a problem sometimes, but actually not as often as people believe it would.
• Go allows me to get more done in the same amount of time. It’s got all the tools I need, it compiles quickly, the standard library is A+ and the community is just awesome!
• Unlike JavaScript, Go doesn’t require me to write asynchronous code because it’s non-blocking by nature due to goroutines. I’m welcome to just write seemingly stupid blocking code like I’m used to from, say, PHP.
• Unlike JavaScript, Go isn't afraid of computation, in fact, it's one of the fastest and most memory efficient languages out there.
• Unlike JavaScript, Go is incredibly easy to benchmark (it’s got benchmarking built-in to the testing toolchain) and gives me all the tool needed to analyze the final service finding and eliminating any bottlenecks and latency issues.
• Unlike Node scripts, Go binaries are much easier to deploy because they don’t require any external runtime or libraries.
• Unlike Node, Go allows me to write highly concurrent code without a hassle. Each request/connection can be handled by its own separate goroutine and they can all share memory allowing for highly efficient communication.

Till Node.js use for server-side-rendered SPA/PWA apps today, which is what Node is still very useful for, but apart from this - almost all my CLI tools, servers, APIs etc. are all written in Go today and it’ll probably remain the best choice !


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