What is the advantage of Golang over Java and Scala?

Go is designed for concurrent applications. Concurrency is a lot easier in Golang than Java or Scala.

Unlike Java, Go is compiled to machine code and is executed directly. That makes it faster.

Threads and queues are built into Go, they are called goroutines and channels. Java uses OS threads but Go uses goroutines.

Go is the intentionally simplified language. It leaves out many Java (leave alone Scala) features.

For example, there are no Object oriented features in the same way there is in Java. This makes it a lot simpler.

It also has great microservices support. Applications often have a number of external services like databases,queues,caches.

Go uses async I/O so that application can work with any number of services without blocking web request.

So some advantages are:

• Fast Compilation
• Lightweight theading
• Go compiles to Native Code

More about Go:

• Learn Golang
• Golang website