Hire Qualified Go Developers

For performance purposes, Golang is the clear winner as a statically typed, compiled language. When a Go program runs, the code is directly translated to machine-level instructions. This differs from Python, which is an interpreted language. Golang excels in concurrency with goroutines and channels, allowing developers to build scalable applications with minimal overhead.

One advantage Python has as an interpreted language is quick development and prototyping. Both are fairly easy to learn. Go has a simple and minimalistic syntax and is designed to be easy for developers of C languages to easily transition to. Python, however, is widely considered to be an extremely beginner friendly language. It favors readability, and the ecosystem of PIP packages make it very easy for a novice to pick up and find a way to piece together something that does what they need.

Speaking of the ecosystem, Golang does have a robust and rapidly growing set of tools. Most of these are focused on backend development tasks. But the amount of ready made tools available is much larger for Python, as it’s a go-to for beginner to intermediate developers to simply get something made, leading to a popularity feedback loop inspiring more libraries and tools. There are tools for web developers like Django and Flask, data science like NumPy, pandas, and TensorFlow, and many more. Computers are fast enough these days that nearly anything that doesn’t have a requirement to run at scale doesn’t have to consider using the most performant tools available over a language and ecosystem that is more friendly.

It all comes down to use cases. Golang is great for things like Cloud-native applications, backend systems, microservices, and real-time applications. Python excels with data science, web development, scripting and automation.

Web Servers and APIs

Golang is a common choice for developing web servers and RESTful APIs. Go has built in packages for handling HTTP, and the performance it provides works great for building scalable backend applications.

Cloud Computing

Go was designed by Google for scalability. It’s relied on heavily by them as well as many others like Dropbox, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Go is efficient with concurrency, and it’s a good choice for the distributed nature of cloud computing.

Command Line Tools and Easy Deployment

Golang compiles into a single binary without the need for external dependencies (in most cases). This makes deployment a snap, and in the case of distributing a command line tool, more simple for both the developer and the user.

Microservices

The lightweight nature of Go with the above mentioned single binary distribution makes it a great choice for microservices, which need to be independently deployed and verified. The menial resource consumption reduces the overhead of breaking things up into microservices as well.