Advantages of Go
Although Go is not perfect, it has lots of advantages and can help you develop the following kinds of applications:
- Professional Web Services
- Networking tools and servers
- Backend systems
- System utilities
- Powerful command line utilities such as
docker
andhugo
- Applications that work with JSON data
- Applications that process data from Relational databases, NoSQL databases or other popular data storage systems
- Compilers and interpreters for programming languages you design
- Database systems such as CockroachDB
There are many things that Go does better than other programming languages, including the following:
- The Go compiler can catch many silly errors that might result in bugs because the Go compiler is here to help.
- Go uses fewer parentheses than C, C++ or Java and no semicolons, which makes the look of Go source code more pleasant.
- Go comes with a rich Standard Library.
- Go has support for concurrency out of the box through goroutines and channels.
- Although goroutines are not as powerful as OS threads, they are really lightweight. You can easily run thousands of goroutines on any modern machine without any performance issues.
- Unlike C, Go supports functional programming.
- Unlike C or C++, Go can work efficiently with JSON records without having to write too much code.
- Go code is backwards compatible, which means that newer versions of the Go compiler accept programs that were created using a previous version of the language without any modifications.