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by spritefs 1226 days ago
Why Go and not Java?

This article just makes me more reluctant to ever use it for anything

But if Google wants to ruin their own lang, sure by all means

1 comments

Mostly memory. Go can run a full web server in 30 mb. Java's equivalent would be around 128 or more. Essentially you can do more PoC on smaller, more affordable hardware using Go. Here's a benchmark for calculation implements. Most of the time Go uses less memory while executing near Java's performance. https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-jav...