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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.

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.

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.