Re:Why I Program in Go
by djhworld on Sunday January 06, 2013 @06:09AM
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For my day job I program in Java doing enterprise stuff, at home I enjoy dabbling in Go, D, Haskell and Clojure for personal projects.
Mainly because in my opinion it's a huge PITA to do command line stuff in Java and distributing class files/jars to other systems is a real pain especially when other instances have varying versions of the JVM running.
With Go I can just compile something on my machine and send the executable to another (running the same/similar OS) and I can be pretty sure it runs fine.
Java is great for large, long running applications like web apps and servers, but I don't think you can be as productive when knocking out one-off scripts/rough and ready prototypes.
Mainly because in my opinion it's a huge PITA to do command line stuff in Java and distributing class files/jars to other systems is a real pain especially when other instances have varying versions of the JVM running.
With Go I can just compile something on my machine and send the executable to another (running the same/similar OS) and I can be pretty sure it runs fine.
Java is great for large, long running applications like web apps and servers, but I don't think you can be as productive when knocking out one-off scripts/rough and ready prototypes.