Go

Why

  1. Go has goroutines instead of threads.
    • Goroutines have growable segmented stacks.
    • Goroutines have a faster startup time than threads.
    • Goroutines come with built-in primitives to communicate safely between themselves (channels).
    • Goroutines allow you to avoid having to resort to mutex locking when sharing data structures.
    • A single goroutine can run on multiple threads. Goroutines are multiplexed into small number of OS threads.
  2. Compiled language.
    • Performance is almost nearer to lower level languages.
  3. Neat and clean syntax
    • No classes. Every thing is divided into packages only. Go has only structs instead of classes.
    • Does not support inheritance.
    • No constructors.
    • No annotations.
    • No generics.
    • No exceptions.
  4. Other languages:
    • C: fast, difficult to work with and not safe. Compiling speed, dependencies and runtime errors are vast.
    • Ruby: safe but it’s slower and has many dependencies, one of them is the interpreter itself.
    • Java: a virutal machine is needed. Too complex and verbose to write.
    • Javascript and Node.js: they are wild kids; which are interpreted, weakly-typed and unsafe to work with (although there are some possible directions like TypeScript or compiling directly to Javascript from other safer languages).
    • Python: slow, weak types.

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