Go is safe
One of the contributing factors to its speed is the fact that Go is statically typed. This makes the language ideal for building systems at a large scale and being confident in how your program will run in production. Also, since Go programs are built with a compiler instead of being run with an interpreter, it allows you to catch more bugs at compile time and greatly reduces the dreaded runtime errors.
This safety net is also extended to the Go garbage collector. Garbage collection means that you do not need to manually allocate and deallocate memory. This helps prevent memory leaks that might occur from mishandling objects in your code. Some may argue that garbage collection impedes the performance of your application, however, ...
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