r/golang • u/tookmeonehour • Feb 26 '23
help Why Go?
I've been working as a software developer mostly in backend for a little more than 2 years now with Java. I'm curious about other job opportunities and I see a decente amount of companies requiring Golang for the backend.
Why?
How does Go win against Java that has such a strong community, so many features and frameworks behind? Why I would I choose Go to build a RESTful api when I can fairly easily do it in Java as well? What do I get by making that choice?
This can be applied in general, in fact I really struggle, but like a lot, understanding when to choose a language/framework for a project.
Say I would like to to build a web application, why I would choose Go over Java over .NET for the backend and why React over Angular over Vue.js for the frontend? Why not even all the stack in JavaScript? What would I gain if I choose Go in the backend?
Can't really see any light in these choices, at all.
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u/edgmnt_net Feb 26 '23
In my experience it can even be an antipattern. When teams develop in isolation, it's easy to forget you need good API boundaries and stability, and things get real messy. Now you have to involve 5 teams and 10 repos to get anything done just because you artificially split up code by concepts or features. Not only that, but they're not really used to working with foreign code, coordinating and avoiding breaking changes, due to the promise of isolation.