Will GO replace Node?

Question

nodeJs is getting more and more famous, but Google's new concept GO might replace it in the future. what do you think? are there other examples in history where Google created it's own concept and replaced an existing one? (thinking of AngularJs...)

Answer 1

No, it will not. JavaScript is popular for a reason - it is a simple scripting language easy to understand use and execute while Go have to be compiled and needs more knowledge. Thus JavaScript development will be always cheaper than Go development and for this reason will be NodeJS used more than Go for some tasks.

Answer 2

is programming Go so complex? I have never tried it, but it sounds like it is not and brings up the feature of multi threading... is there another way to chat aside this forum? ;)

Answer 3

Programming in Go is definitively more complex than JavaScript (+NodeJs) so it will be always more expensive.

Answer 4

do you have experience in go and do you recommend to give it a try? your comments sound like it is not worth to use go at all ;)

Answer 5

I have tried it and wrote small app in it. But if I think on OS level than is better Rust and if I think on portability level is better Java...
Anyway Go has one big advantage - the power of company behind.

Answer 6

For more - I think that Go design is really good for huge sites in cloud.

Answer 7

I started a book about go and one of the first examples is the easy way how to improve web crawler ;) looks like Google tries to improve a certain topic... I think I will try it with a small application, too. I've never heard of rust, yet another topic to dive into...

Answer 8

huge is not always great :-| but I like the way how they deal with problems - because they can...

Answer 9

I agree - Go is mentioned as a language for cloud environment but still - real front-end will be written in HTML+JS. Rust is more like C++ alternative.