The Go language, getting a lot of attention because it was recently open sourced by Google, seems to be a sort of programmers’ Rorschach test in that everyone calls it a replacement for C++/Python/Erlang/Your Language Here… My sense is it wouldn’t be getting that much attention if it were released apart from Google. But thinking [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Comparing Erlang, Go, Java, and C
Tim over at timyang.net has an interesting ‘hello world’ web server test between Erlang, Go, Java, and C. The C code is an nginx plugin, Java uses the MINA framework; Erlang and Go are small standalone apps. Java ‘won’, with Erlang in second place. Interesting article and the first I’ve seen comparing Go and Erlang [...]