Deno vs Go | What are the differences?

Deno

Stacks151

Followers198

+ 1

Votes53

Go

Stacks11.1K

Followers9.2K

+ 1

Votes3K

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Pros of Deno

Pros of Go

11
Typescript
10
Secure
8
Open source
5
Formatting
5
Testing
5
Great std library
5
Javascript
2
Easy Config
2
ESM

509
High-performance
375
Simple, minimal syntax
343
Fun to write
288
Easy concurrency support via goroutines
260
Fast compilation times
183
Goroutines
173
Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy
144
Simple compile build/run procedures
129
Backed by google
125
Great community
46
Garbage collection built-in
40
Built-in Testing
36
Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc
33
Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C
28
Awesome to Develop
22
Flexible interface system
21
Great concurrency pattern
21
Used for Docker
18
Deploy as executable
17
Open-source Integration
14
Fun to write and so many feature out of the box
11
Its Simple and Heavy duty
11
Easy to read
10
Powerful and simple
9
Safe GOTOs
9
Go is God
9
Easy to deploy
7
Easy setup
7
Hassle free deployment
7
Best language for concurrency
7
Concurrency
7
Rich standard library
6
Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance
6
Used by Giants of the industry
6
Clean code, high performance
6
High performance
6
Single binary avoids library dependency issues
5
Cross compiling
5
Simple, powerful, and great performance
4
Excellent tooling
4
Garbage Collection
4
Very sophisticated syntax
4
Gofmt
4
WYSIWYG
3
Kubernetes written on Go
2
Keep it simple and stupid
1
Widely used
0
No generics
0
Operator goto

Cons of Deno

Cons of Go

2
Still in early development
1
Bad Rust plugin support

38
You waste time in plumbing code catching errors
23
Verbose
22
Packages and their path dependencies are braindead
15
Dependency management when working on multiple projects
12
Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly
10
Automatic garbage collection overheads
7
Uncommon syntax
4
Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)
1
Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)

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What is Deno?

It is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.

What is Go?

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

What companies use Deno?

What companies use Go?