Overview

Golang

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Followers13.9K

Votes3.3K

GitHub Stars130.7K

Forks18.4K

Spring Boot

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Followers24.3K

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GitHub Stars78.9K

Forks41.6K

Go vs Spring Boot: What are the differences?

Go and Spring Boot are two popular frameworks used in web development. While both have their own strengths and weaknesses, there are several key differences between the two.

Language: Go is a statically typed, compiled language, while Spring Boot is based on Java, which is an object-oriented, interpreted language. This fundamental difference in language choice affects the syntax, performance, and ease of development in each framework.
Concurrency Model: Go has built-in support for concurrency with goroutines and channels, making it highly efficient in handling concurrent tasks. On the other hand, Spring Boot relies on Java's threading model, which can be more complex to manage and requires explicit synchronization.
Scalability: Go is designed to be highly scalable and can handle a large number of concurrent requests with ease. It excels in creating high-performance, scalable applications. While Spring Boot can also handle concurrent requests, its scalability may depend on the underlying JVM and infrastructure setup.
Deployment: Go applications are typically compiled into a standalone binary, making the deployment process straightforward. Spring Boot applications, on the other hand, are packaged as Java archives (JARs) and require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run, adding an extra layer of complexity to the deployment process.
Community and Ecosystem: Go has gained popularity in recent years and has a growing community, with a focus on simplicity and performance. Spring Boot, on the other hand, has been around for a longer time and has a mature ecosystem with extensive community support and a wide range of third-party libraries and frameworks.
Learning Curve: Go has a relatively simpler syntax and a smaller set of features compared to Spring Boot. This makes it easier to learn and get started with, especially for developers who are new to web development. Spring Boot, being based on Java, has a steeper learning curve and requires a deeper understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.

In summary, Go is a highly efficient and scalable language with a simpler syntax and powerful concurrency model. Spring Boot, on the other hand, provides a mature ecosystem, extensive community support, and a wider range of features and libraries, but has a steeper learning curve and requires a Java runtime for deployment.

Advice on Golang, Spring Boot

Ítalo

VP Platform Engineering at Lykon

Feb 19, 2020

Decided

We decided to use python to write our ETLs and import them into metabase via a lambda. Before python we tried using Go, but overall go was way more verbose than Python when writing the ETLs. Go also had some issues managing memory when using the S3 upload manager library. This was a deal breaker for us that made us switch to Python.

In the end the solution was much cleaner and maintainable.

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Mohamed

Software Engineer at YottaHQ Inc.

Dec 2, 2019

Decided

PHP is easy to learn and you can get up and running in no time, available on almost all hosting providers and you can find developers easily. It has some great frameworks for building your backend like Symfony and Laravel. However, it can be challenging when running an enterprise and needs some adjustments, very recommended for starting a new project or startup.

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Antonio

Sep 22, 2019

Needs advice

The problem I have is: build a scalable backend API decoupled as much as possible from the frontend. And more in general, to build a Web application using some kind of frontend. I would like to compare mainly Liferay with Spring Boot

The most important factors for me are: scalable backend, API documentation, TDD, integration with frontend application for modern reactive interaction

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Detailed Comparison

Golang	Spring Boot
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.	Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 130.7K	GitHub Stars 78.9K
GitHub Forks 18.4K	GitHub Forks 41.6K
Stacks 22.6K	Stacks 26.8K
Followers 13.9K	Followers 24.3K
Votes 3.3K	Votes 1.0K
Pros & Cons
Pros 557 High-performance 398 Simple, minimal syntax 365 Fun to write 304 Easy concurrency support via goroutines 273 Fast compilation times Cons 42 You waste time in plumbing code catching errors 25 Verbose 23 Packages and their path dependencies are braindead 16 Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly 15 Dependency management when working on multiple projects	Pros 149 Powerful and handy 134 Easy setup 128 Java 90 Spring 85 Fast Cons 23 Heavy weight 18 Annotation ceremony 13 Java 11 Many config files needed 5 Reactive
Integrations
Revel Martini	Spring Java

What are some alternatives to Golang, Spring Boot?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Java

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HTML5

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