Posts Tagged with programming languages

First, “web development” is a very broad term and might, therefore, mean a lot of things including server-side rendered HTML pages, JSON APIs, microservices, etc. Second, let’s define what makes a programming language qualify for web development. (sorted by importance) Ecosystem Tooling Libraries Developer market Success stories Maintainability Language design Ecosystem consistency Performance Asynchronous execution for increased throughput Low latency Raw number-crunching performance Infrastructure Hosting and deployment Memory usage and cost in general So, let’s get ready to compare!

Go in a Nutshell is .. Imperative language Statically typed Syntax tokens similar to C (but less parentheses and no semicolons) and the structure to Oberon-2 Compiles to native code (no JVM) No classes, but structs with methods Interfaces No implementation inheritance. There’s type embedding, though. Functions are first class citizens Functions can return multiple values Has closures Pointers, but not pointer arithmetic Built-in concurrency primitives: Goroutines and Channels Basic Syntax of Go Programming Language Hello World Example File hello.