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With the help of Filio Force company specialists, we continue to talk about programming languages. We will talk about Golang, which is a relatively young language. It was introduced by Google in 2009. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson created this language. It is believed that the name of the language is an abbreviation of Google Language.
The language was originally created to solve the problems of Google itself. They needed a modern and productive alternative to C++ with clear and clean code. All this was to speed up software development and easily support the IT-giant’s projects. Then it was given to the general public.
Go was created to solve the problems of bad syntax, slow building of applications, complexity of updates and dependencies customisation. It was all very topical at the time. But the main purpose of creating Golang was to realise a powerful language for creating highly efficient multithreaded applications.
The distinguishing feature of Go is its compilability. Let’s take two very popular languages for example: Python is interpreted and Java is executed on JVM (Java Virtual Machine). At the same time, the source code of compiled languages is immediately turned into machine code. This takes much less time and affects the speed of the programmes.
As the developers of Filio Force Canada explain, if you take other compiled languages, such as C and C++, you will see that memory management falls entirely on the programmer. During development, he has to delete unnecessary objects for more efficient memory usage. This makes the work much more complicated. Golang provides a rubbish collector for memory management, which takes care of all the dirty work.
The main advantages of the Go language include the following:
Unlike other modern programming languages where multithreading is implemented via threads, Golang has beautiful routines. Their main advantages over threads are speed of startup, safer data exchange using channels, and efficient memory usage, which allows a large number of processes to run concurrently.
Go syntax is simple and straightforward. The code is easy to analyse and maintain. The extensive standard library is also a big plus for Golang. Out of the box, it offers a huge number of features and functions that in many other languages you have to install additionally.
This language is used to write products designed to accelerate certain parts of programmes that were created in other languages: PHP, Python, Ruby. This is a fairly common solution for companies that create serious software in these languages.
The second and most popular sphere of use is the main language for microservice architecture. In fact, for the concept of microservices Go language is ideal. A small, compact service that performs only one task is very easy to create and works efficiently due to its simple syntax, compilability, and availability of a rubbish collector.
Go is a simple, powerful programming language that is easy to learn. Taking into account the dynamics of Golang’s popularity and demand growth, we can conclude that this language is very promising. It is even called the server language of the future. Go solves all the problems of programming languages (multithreading, performance, easy support, simple syntax) and meets modern requirements. Filio Force development uses this language to create client projects. If you want to order development of new applications, programmes – contact us.