1. Why Golang?
Settling the
Debate Once
and For All
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2. We all have experienced the blissful feeling
at the initial stage of the greenfield project.
For every single decision, you have endless
possibilities to choose from, and when you
encounter how to get started, the first
question that you have to deal with is which
programming language I should choose my
project?
Whether I should I go with a new fancy
language or should I stick to the most
popular language? Fortunately, at Bacancy
Technology, our experts are familiar with
these questions as we have worked with all
the shapes and sizes of clients, and we always
make a choice considering a common
possibility that the programming language
should be suitable for server-side application
development. That’s why we give Golang
special importance.

3. Today majority of the tech founder is using
the Go language. It has aroused a lot of
curiosity about why a decade old language is
successfully replacing Java that came about
in 1991 and other programming languages,
which are way older than Golang. To validate
the popularity of I checked TIOBE Index –
TIOBE is a programming community index
that measures the popularity of
programming languages, As per the TOIBE,
there’s a significant and steady rise in the
usage as well as adoption in Go programing
language. Go is a serious language with a
proven track record of lifting enterprise-level
projects.

4. Back to the
Basics:
Why Golang?

5. Imagine you are a Golang programmer and
attending an event in a completely different
city. You decide to share some knowledge
person next to you about microservice
architecture in Golang; it’s a single binary,
Golang is comparatively quite stable, mature,
and fast. Your knowledge grabs the attention
of others, and one of them straight away you
what makes you think that Golang is better
than Rust, another one also curiously asks Is
Golang going to overpower Python?

6. Unfortunately, you don’t feel good, as you
could only answer about the Go that makes
Golang the best programming language for
web application development, but it won’t be
a satisfactory answer. Suddenly you start
feeling bad that you choose Go language over
other programming languages because you
were told that Go is fairly fast and
syntactically similar to C but with CSP-style
Concurrency, Garbage Collection, and
Memory Safety.
You have chosen Go as a promising language,
but the other has a completely different
opinion on Golang and you have a made a
choice a long back and now you are pleased
to join the circles as you want to settle the
debate for once and all for.

7. So, Let’s Join
the Discussion:
Why Golang is
better than
Python?

8. Go, and Python, both of them, present
themselves as simplicity-oriented languages.
The code is easy to read and understand in
both the languages.
In the comparison of Python, Golang offers a
smoother debugging process. Python is
dynamically-typed; it signals bugs at the run
time, whereas Go is statically-typed. It signals
errors at the compile-time, not at the
execution.
Go provides built-in support for web
application development; therefore, Gophers
indicates that there is no need to use a
framework; however, Python provides the
base as per your convenience.

9. The performance of both these programming
languages can be tested easily by including several
factors, such as memory management,
functionality, and speed. Both the programming
languages performed remarkably.
Golang vs. Python: Performance
Golang vs. Python: Scalability
In this day and age, having an application building
process that is scalable is one of the most
important things to consider for a development
company. Golang as a language was created,
keeping this parameter in check. For a Golang
Development company like Google, the support
and ideas of concurrent process channeling
proved to be a significant factor.
However, when it comes to Python, the language
surely showed some problems in the case of
concurrency but had fantastic results when it
came to parallelism. Python provided consistent
results when it came to splitting up the tasks in
order to provide better scalability for the
programming language.

10. And someone
curiously asked
what’s your
opinion on,

11. Well, go vs. Rust has been a hot topic of
discussion because they were both launched
approximately at the same time. Both Rust
and Golang are competent languages that
work well when you are designing a web
application. Either of the languages is
capable of handling high volume traffic and
is also capable of scaling both vertically and
horizontally. Neither Rust nor Golang
languages tolerate unsafe memory access.
Golang vs. Rust

12. Contrariwise, industry experts suggest, Go is a
superior language compared to Rust in every
possible manner. It is entirely secure when
compared to other programming languages. Both
languages are on the rise and gaining popularity in
the developer’s community. Why is Go better than
Rust? Because of its simplicity and ease of usability.
It is also faster to learn, providing developers a
more effortless programming experience. Thus, Go
is a more preferred language by the developer’s
team. Go language focuses on simplicity and
uniformity. It makes the team more efficient by
providing a rigid application of simplicity.
Rust as a programming language provides
developer teams with great controlling ability at a
granular level, also controlling the threads and
their behavior with the rest of the system. Yet, Rust
is not widely preferred due to its complexity and
difficulty in learning and adaptation. Furthermore,
Rust is not readily adaptable with other languages
like Python and is competing to find its significance
with languages like C++ and D.

13. And then I
asked, what’s
your opinion
on Golang vs.
Node.js?

14. In the comparison of Node.js, Golang is very
lightweight, and its performance
characteristics are similar to the C/C++.
When it comes to real-life performance, both
the technologies, demonstrate similar
results. When database interaction or net
network communication are involved, Node.js
and Go are often equal, and they work at
similar speeds.
Go’s performance is consistent, but Node.js
performance is either high or terrible,
depending on the type of application you are
building.
Golang Vs. NodeJS:
Performance

15. When it comes to compile-time and run-time
errors, it is definitely raising problems for
the Go developers. The creators of Golang
have also started performing on the further
error handling functionality to shorten
development time. Whereas error handling
mechanism of Node.js is quite popular with
the conventional approach as the errors are
fixed immediately right before executing the
further operation. However, Node.js is
inconsistent at times.
Golang Vs. NodeJS: Error
Handling

16. In the comparison of Nodejs, Golang does not
have excessive libraries and packages. Go
requires to perform research on manual
configuration, whereas Node.js has a wide
array of tools, frameworks, libraries, and a
huge community that provides extended
support for all the kinds of development
tools. In the development tool Go loses battle
to the Node.js
Go vs. Node JS: Development
Tools

17. How does
Golang stack
up against
other
programming
languages?

18. Golang is fundamentally better due to its
ability and scalability to work smoothly in all
the tasks. When it comes to machine learning,
IoT, cloud coding, and backend, it is superior
– a clear winner as it saves loads of time. This
is bringing brings us to its strong suit and its
use cases.
If you are planning to build a web application
considering cross-platform support, with full
use of concurrency and codebase, then
without a doubt, you should hire golang
developer. Go is a brilliant language
initiative by Google, and migrating to the
Golang may help you in shaping your
software strategy and is also beneficial in the
delivery of the near future.

19. When Should
You Migrate
Your App to
Golang?

20. In a short span of time, Netflix has expanded
its services worldwide, and Netflix makes use
of Golang for optimized server loading, and
efficient data processing on servers as
Golang enables non-disruptive background
loading.
If your business demands modern
functionalities to implement, such as new
eCommerce features and on-demand
services, then migrating to Golang is, without
a doubt, a viable choice. When the app
expands, and new features are added, it
becomes a little tough to write the code by
their predecessors. Because it can lead to
increase response time in maintenance and
troubleshooting. So if there is a surge is a
demand and your existing application is
unable to deal with the capacity, then Golang
is a sure shot choice for the quick server
response and predictable business growth.

21. Thank you