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0 pointsBertrandP12y ago0 comments

Definitely, definitely not true. Go is extremely fast, it has its strengths in some areas and trade offs in other areas. If you want a good comparison to Apache Kafka, you should look at Apcera's NATS server, a publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system written in Go by Derek Collison: https://github.com/apcera/gnatsd

You should never discredit a language, especially with blanket terms such as "its faster than Go". In what respects and in what areas? Here's a blog post which performs benchmarks on Go and Scala: http://eng.42go.com/scala-vs-go-tcp-benchmark/

They found Go to perform better than scala, however it had a high footprint. Every language has its tradeoffs, Java and Go are no exception.

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nemothekid12y ago· 1 in thread

Your link says the opposite of what you posted. From the article: "To our surprise, Scala did quite a bit better than Go, with an average round trip time of ~1.6 microseconds (0.0016 milliseconds) vs. Go’s ~11 microseconds (0.011 milliseconds).", and "Notable in the opposite direction was that the Go server had a memory footprint of only about 10 MB vs. Scala’s nearly 200 MB."

I have no idea where people got the idea that Go was faster than Java, or that Java/JVM is slow in 2013. Not trying to discredit Go (its my language of choice), but to say it surpassed Java while only being around for almost 5 years is disingenuous.

BertrandPOP12y ago

nemothekid,

You're absolutely right, my apologizes, its been a while since i read that article. Thank you for the correction! Much appreciated.

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