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_3

3. A Deeper Comparison of Go and Java

Barry Feigenbaum, Ph.D.¹  

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Austin, TX, USA

 

This chapter drills down on the earlier introduction of Go vs. Java. It describes in greater detail the significant differences between Java and Go. By comparing Go to Java, one can absorb the Go features more readily.

Go is (in the author’s opinion) a much simpler language than Java; Go is arguably even a simpler language than C. For example, the Java Language Specification is currently around 800 pages long, while the Go Language Specification is currently around 85¹ pages long. Clearly, ...