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 and hugo
  • 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.