I used Go for a year and it was awesome
Go is a programming language engineered by a handful of Googlers, when I mean engineered I mean engineered. Compared to other popular languages such as JavaScript, Go’s statically typed linguistics was engineered so you can create reliable, efficient code in a productive manner similar to a dynamically typed language and so the compiler can do its job fast.
Go has sped up my development process and decreased the amount of time I spend tinkering around getting things to work.
After using it for about a year here’s what I like about Go
- Relatively easy to learn.
- Readable.
- First-class networking library.
- No need to declare something more than once.
- No headers.
- Fast compilation times.
- Really quick to prototype anything/Productive.
- Forces you to implement good coding practices (forcing you to deal with unused stuff) and forces you to follow the type.
- Goroutines & Channels allow you to concurrently run methods cheaply & easily.
- Multi-value returns.
- Having a good GC is cool. 😎
- A wealth of included convenient libraries.
- It will catch most of the bugs you have in your code (except data races).
Neutral Points
- Generics would be nice but I understand it would increase compilation and or run time.
Here’s what I don’t like
- Lack of ASLR on all platforms (Linux only).
Go is like a safer, better C (if you come from a C-style language you should be able to read Go just like that).
