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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by rad_gruchalski on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @05:41PM (#26159710)
The advantage of nodejs over go for web apps is the live reload / recompile tool chain. golang has some really nice apis for back end servers, single binary, no runtime deployment is really great. But golang lacks in that live reload feedback loop.

I do a lot of golang but whenever I want to do something web browser facing, I cave in for nodejs. Especially in the exploratory phase when building front / back end together.

Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by matwood on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:42AM (#26166167)
Having used both go and node, the go compile speed is fast enough that I don't really notice a difference.
Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by domano on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:30PM (#26160219)
With the compile speed of go i mostly could get into that same style of development as with dynamic languages. I think with generics this will get even closer, because of the plethora of libraries that will be released when generics land.
Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by laxk on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:19AM (#26163001)
You can try to use https://github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon, it is pretty stable and just works at least on Linux/OSX.