So if you also think, to write powerful software you also need a powerful language, then you’re wrong. Go allows you to focus on the problem more and less on the way you are trying to solve it. Go is simple to read, and that’s the whole point of it, isn’t it?

Explosion into Popularity

There are a few names you must know before getting into Go, just like we all know who wrote Harry Potter and who directed Interstellar. Robert Griesemer, Ian, Brad, Gent are a few of the awesome programmers who have molded the language as we know of it today. A lot of the cloud is written in Go, Kubernetes for example.

With C++, there isn’t an effortless way to do things. There’s memory allocation, deallocation, pointers and much more. On the memory side of things, Go is somewhat similar to C++. And the best thing being, it is really really fast. Go is about 40 times faster than Python, yet really simple too.

Some of the greatest minds in computer science have been behind this and they build it in a way it was easy, simple, reliable and more. In other words, they wanted to eliminate the problems that companies like Google run into when they deal with petabytes of data.

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