Go for Java Programmers: Learn the Google Go Programming Language

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B. Feigenbaum, Ph.D.Go for Java Programmershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7199-5_1

1. A Brief Look at Go vs. Java

Barry Feigenbaum, Ph.D.¹  

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Austin, TX, USA

 

There are many obvious and subtle differences between Java and Go. They can be compared as a language and as a runtime. This survey concentrates mostly on a language comparison. It is intended to present a broad-stroke comparison. Much deeper comparisons are done throughout the text.

Some of the text in this chapter might be read as disparaging Go. That is not the intent. Go is a powerful language, and it can easily hold its own against Java. But Java does have features Go does not, and they will ...