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Top Reasons to Choose Go Programming Language
All Programming Languages have its pros and cons.
It would be really difficult to choose any one
Programming language which is better among all of
them but Golang give a good competition to all
the other programming language. Golang is perfect
choice for the developers and for companies who
are looking for Scalable, Concurrent and safe
programming language for their application
development.
There are many companies providing services using
Golang. Netflix Uber SpaceX Slack Dropbox
Google Medium.com Lyft The things Developer
likes about Golang are
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• Open source
• It is utmost important for any programming
  language to be an open-source to become better,
  widely used, cleaner and much more efficient.
  Being open source, it allows Golang developer to
  identify the defects, if any in the program and
  correct the Go code.

• Golang is fast
• Go provides faster compilation and execution
  speed. Go code gets directly compiled to machine
  code, depending upon the Operating System
  (Linux/Windows/Mac) and the CPU instruction set
  architecture (x86, x8664, arm etc) of the
  machine the code is being compiled upon. So, it
  runs really fast, provides quick feedback and
  saves time and money.
• Go has a simple structure and syntax to follow
  for programming. The language is based on
  functions, so it is simple understand and fast to
  learn. Its simple, so it is more maintainable,
  and development is faster and cheaper.
• Concurrency
• Concurrency is about dealing with multiple
  processes simultaneously and effectively. With
  recent technology advancement, concurrency
  becoming the most important factor while
  choosing the latest language for any program
  development. Go programming provides some great
  concurrency primitives and makes it extremely
  easy to implement a concurrent system. This
  becomes the foremost factor we consider while
  choosing Golang over other languages for creating
  any program.
• Go supports concurrency at the language level.
  The fundamental unit for this in Go is a Go
  routine. Go routines are cheap, lightweight and
  takes less memory than usual threads of
  execution.
• Garbage Collection
• Garbage collector helps to improve performance of
  the program by providing an automated way of
  managing and utilizing the memory effectively.
  With Go, inbuilt garbage collector helps to make
  concurrency more efficient.
• Golang is cross-platform
• It is widely used and for different platforms
  which includes Linux, Windows, and UNIX and
  mobile devices. In addition, it compiles well on
  many operating systems. This allows Go developed
  applications to be portable and result in
  improved efficiency.

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• Golang keeps the bugs away
• Go being compiled language developers have to be
  more attentive and accurate while developing the
  program/writing the Go code. This helps to keep
  the bugs away and make code neat, clean and
  safe.
• Source https//www.scalent.io/