Back in the day, developing applications with open source technologies were looked at with concern. But today open source development services is a rapidly growing sector with many development companies claiming expertise to develop powerful, secure applications using open source frameworks. Even Microsoft has started backing open source now. Among many open source technologies that are garnering a lot of praise, Go stands out.

Modern applications need to handle heavier loads and more frequent requests. Keeping this in mind, a group of engineers at Google developed Go. Also known as Golang, Go is an open source programming language that gained momentum immediately after its launch owing to ease of deployment, a simple syntax and a few other benefits. Almost every leading software development company in UAE is now encouraging their developers to learn and master Go.

Let’s check out the key benefits of Google’s new contribution to the developer community.

• It’s a compiled language: Go is a compiled language which means it won’t disappoint when it comes to speed demands. Compiled languages are directly converted into machine-level code instead of interpreting the code only when the application is run. 
• Go Compiler: Being a compiled language, Go is fast. The Go Compiler is the reason for this speed while also offering additional benefits like error-checking, easier deployment and better code optimization. 
• Error-checking: Go’s error-checking capabilities allow it to detect unused variables, mistyped operations, missing packages and more. Before the developer even runs the program, the language can point out everything that works and everything that doesn’t thus saving development time.
• Cross-compiling: Go can also cross-compile an application to run on a different machine than the one it was intended to run on when developing it. Executable binaries for different operating systems can be generated using a few simple commands. This makes deploying Go applications on production servers or local machines much easier and faster. 
• Scalability: Being a Google product, scalability is not even a concern when using Go. Strong concurrency is a major highlight of Go which means that it can efficiently run several tasks simultaneously within an application. The Goroutine feature of the language helps handle concurrency while Go Channels allow different Goroutines to communicate with each other to determine optimal way to complete a task.
• Ease of use and Simplicity: Go is simply very easy to understand, read and write. 

Conclusion

Go could be a great asset for a business that wants to scale. Its several benefits and overall ease of use emphasize why many companies in the Middle East are already using Go for their applications’ backend. A few years ago, when application speed started to matter, the LAMP development services sector started to grow. That same open source revolution is what Go is doing right now. It won’t be long before Go becomes the go-to programming language for app development companies. It’s high time to get a seat on Golang’s bandwagon.