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Learn Golang in 2025, You Won't Regret It

LinceMathew on December 29, 2024

As I explained in previous articles, we are working on building LiveAPI, a super-convenient auto-API doc generation tool. LiveAPI's backend is in G...

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David Sugar • Dec 30 '24

Overall, what makes go special is simplicity. Go programs are easy to write and easy to read. This often makes them easy to debug, too.

LinceMathew • Dec 30 '24

Exactly.

adic threex • Dec 31 '24

I think Rust is much more easer. By your points:

In go you write concurency code and you must write specific tests and compile with specific flags to detect data races. In Rust you just write concurency code, no data races possible at all.
Manually descriptors closing looks like something from stone age. You dont need it in Rust.
let result = divide(10, 0)?; 1 loc instead 4 loc with boilerplate.

Also no "Million dollar mistake" in Rust.

Meiyo • Jan 14

It's not the same use case.

While I like Rust, Go is more like a Python++ in your toolbox, while Rust is C with every compile error screaming at you and slapping you with documentation links.

Although basic Rust is pretty straightforward, it takes time to get really productive, whereas Go is ready to use after a few days even less if you are already familiar with C/C++/Rust/Zig.
And complex code is easy to understand.

Whereas with Rust, you're lucky to understand complex code after a few weeks or months of daily rust.

Go is efficiency through simplicity.
Rust is reliability through strict rules which comes with complexity.

adic threex • Feb 1

Of course you really need language which may be learned in few days if you need to code for a few weeks or one month and then never touch programming at all. In the long run, an easier-to-use (see my previous comment) language will pay off the time you spent learning it.

About simplicity - in this case I recommend to use assembly. It's even easier then go: xor rax, rax - so clean, so compact. No abstractions. No implicit. Same as go, it's easy to read and understand just one line of code, but it doesn't make easier to read and understand big sources.

Gabriel Ibe • Feb 9

Bro's crazy 🤪

You freakin recommended Assembly language💀

Manish Mandal • Dec 31 '24

I built my first Go web server this year.

It was my best descision this year to learn Go!!

Chan • Jan 3

Thanks for the great article.

How are go routines different from async functions in javascript? Here's what I found.

Go routines are preemptible while async functions are non-preemptible.
Go routines run on each thread, allowing multiple coroutines to run simultaneously.
Go routines can communicate with each other easily by using channels, while async functions can't.