Go, Go and Go

I was asked a strange question today with an online interview … “On your site you use lots of programming languages. Which is your favouriate?”, and my answer was … Go.

The new scripted languages such as Python and Node.js are convenient. But, unfortunately, they can be slow as they are scripted, and not compiled. Each time the scripted code is run, the scripting engine must then convert each line of code to the required machine level…