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go vs java

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Overview

go
go
Stacks1.7K
Followers1.4K
Votes8
GitHub Stars3.4K
Forks1.3K
java
java
Stacks119
Followers66
Votes0
GitHub Stars5.4K
Forks710

go vs java: What are the differences?

go: Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go. Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go; java: Go on Mobile. Go on Mobile.

go and java belong to "Go Modules Packages" category of the tech stack.

go and java are both open source tools. It seems that java with 3.87K GitHub stars and 474 forks on GitHub has more adoption than go with 1.91K GitHub stars and 640 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, go has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to java, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

go
go
java
java

Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go.

Go on Mobile.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
3.4K
GitHub Stars
5.4K
GitHub Forks
1.3K
GitHub Forks
710
Stacks
1.7K
Stacks
119
Followers
1.4K
Followers
66
Votes
8
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 3
    Easy to learn
  • 3
    Cloud infrastructure friendly
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Extremely portable
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What are some alternatives to go, java?

proto

proto

Go support for Google's protocol buffers.

cloudflare

cloudflare

Cloudflare This package provides the package which offers an interface to the CloudFlare gAPI.

net

net

Go supplementary network libraries.

sys

sys

Go packages for low-level interaction with the operating system.

fsnotify

fsnotify

Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.

aws

aws

AWS SDK for the Go programming language.

text

text

Go text processing support.

assertion

assertion

Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library.

crypto

crypto

Go supplementary cryptography libraries.

errors

errors

Simple error handling primitives.

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