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Discussion on: NodeJS or GoLang for backend API

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Deepu K Sasidharan

I would say it really depends on your usecase. There will be compromise on both sides. If your usecase demands a fast app with small footprint with no runtime, like if you wanna run it on a bare minimum server, then Go would be ideal. But compromise being verbose code and probably having to write a lot of code your self. On the other hand NodeJS IMO would be faster to build as you will find most of the stuff you need as libs and code will be less verbose but won't be as fast as Go and will have slightly bigger footprint with need to install NodeJS runtime. Other than that both language can get the job done so really choose based on need