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This article introduces the knowledge about "what are the reasons for switching from Python to Go language". In the actual case operation process, many people will encounter such difficulties. Next, let Xiaobian lead you to learn how to deal with these situations! I hope you can read carefully and learn something!

#1 Compiled into a single binary

Golang is a compiled language and the developers of Googe put a lot of effort into it. It uses static linking to actually combine all the dependency library files and modules into a single binary file based on the operating system type and environment, which also means that if you want to compile your backend application to your Linux operating system and X86 architecture CPU, you just download the compiled binary application to the server, and then the backend application can work.

#2 Static Type System

Type systems are important for large-scale applications. Python is a great and interesting language, but sometimes you see unusual exceptions because when you try to make a variable an integer it turns out to be a string type.

# Django will crash process because of this def some_view(request): user_id = request.POST.get('id', 0)

Go tells you it's a compiler error at compile time, and that's where you win time on stupid questions.

#3 Optimization

Surprisingly, Go is faster than Python(version 2 or 3) in most application scenarios. Benchmarking Game can see contrasting results, which of course are unfair, depending on the application type and user use case.

In our case, Go achieved better performance due to its multithreaded modules and CPU scalability. Whenever we need to execute some internal requests, we can use Goroutine to execute them separately, which is more than ten times less expensive than Threads in Python. Thanks to these built-in language features, we can save a lot of resources (memory and CPU ).

#4 Go no longer needs a Web framework

This is a cool thing to do with programming languages. Go's creators and community have built in a lot of native tools supported by the core language, and in most cases you don't need any third-party libraries. For example, it has built-in http, json, html templates, and you can even build very complex API services without even bothering to find third-party libraries on Github.

Of course, Go also has a lot of libraries and frameworks for building web projects, but I would recommend that you don't use third-party libraries for building your web projects or API services, because in most cases using native packages will make your life easier.

#5 Better IDE Support and Debugging

IDE support is one of the most important considerations when trying to change programming languages. Friendly IDEs can save you 80% of your programming time on average. Go Plugin For JetBrains IDEA also provides additional support, such as (Webstorm, PHPStorm, etc.). This plug-in provides everything you need for your project development, and the powerful JetBrains IDEA can make your development even better.

Based on our code statistics, we wrote 64% less code after rewriting projects in Go.

You don't need to debug code that doesn't exist. The less code, the fewer errors!

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