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How To Convince Your Team To Use Golang in Your Company

Author: Scalent Infotech
by Scalent Infotech
Posted: Aug 27, 2020

After talking with thousands of people I came to know there are many people out who want to either work on Golang or want to make use of Golang in their project but are unable to do it.

Some of the following was the reason why they were not able to use Golang in their project or their company:-

  1. Working with a team that prefers to use another language.
  2. The team member said Golang lacks language features they need
  3. Technology decision-makers of the company were not ready to migrate existing technology to Golang
  4. Technology decision-makers of the company were not ready to adapt Golang

To help my connection, I decided to write some informative content that will help them to convince their Team to use Golang in the project/company.

Quick History of Golang and its Creators:

Golang is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Robert Griesemer. Golang is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

About Golang’s Creator:

Ken Thompson? : He is Creator of Original Unix & C Language(Along with? Dennis Ritchie? )

Rob Pike:? He is Member of Unix Team creators and Creator of? Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Robert Griesemer? : He worked on code generation for Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, the design and implementation of the domain-specific language Sawzall, the Java HotSpot virtual machine, and the Strongtalk system.

Why Golang was created?

The Free Lunch Is Over A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software By Herb Sutter. The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.

Herb Sutter says that Your free lunch will soon be over and what can you do about it and What are you doing about it. The major processor manufactures were busy in their traditional approaches for boosting the CPU performances. Soon core, dual-core, and then multicore came in the picture but this was not sufficient as no matter how fast processors were, the software was consistently finding their new ways to consume the extra speed the limitation on hardware optimization was seen, and which caused the physical barriers.

This physical barrier inspired Golang’s implementation.

Previously performance on the servers side was dictated by adding more and more cores to the CPU. Multicore is not only expensive but also not indefinitely scalable. Applications, where multicore is used, cannot always be able to exploit them. And the overhead caused due to synchronization between the operations has a direct impact on performance. In such an incidence the compute-intensive operations like deep learning, simulation, engineering can get parallelized.

The languages build before were not natively build to take full advantage of all the Cores of CPU. Golang is built to take full advantage of modern hardware, Golang has concurrency inbuild in the language itself and it’s easy to take full advantage of all the cores of CPU if we have to write programs in Java/Python to take full advantage of CPU we have to use multi-threading and have handle communication between multiple threads and it becomes a tedious job for a developer write such programs, where in-case of Golang it very easy to use core features like Goroutines, Channels to communicate between multiple co-routines.

Some Golang Features

  1. Concurrency?
  2. Standard library
  3. High performant
  4. Standardized test framework?

Know more about Golang here https://medium.com/@ReemiShirsath/how-to-convince-your-team-to-use-golang-in-your-company-3cbf4cd4776c

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Author Reemi Shirsath Chief Operating Officer at Scalent.io

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