Why choose Go ( golang ) for web development?

Why choose the go programing language for web development? Hmm. So in 2013 I was getting back into the web programing game and I was looking around which language do I want to use for server side programing. And, you know, the marketplace was kind of like the old school. And I called up piled high poop because it's not very performant. So you could do old school PHP, which would have been a great choice in 2002 This was 20, 13. And then the newer choices were like Ruby and Ruby would have been a great choice. And like 2007 or 2008 when it first came out, like kind of very interesting, quick, quick development. So maybe Ruby was on my horizon. And then there is also Python and Node.js So Python created by Guido, named after Monty Python. Kind of a whimsical language. I like the way Python code. Right. And and then there's also Node.js, which like the big selling point that I hear people pitch about Node.js is you get to do JavaScript on the front end and the back end. And to me, I'm like, and you're saying that like, that's a benefit So, you know, between those three, I kind of listed them as like, Node would probably be my first choice just because a lot of metrics showed the most performant and then Python would be behind that. But I was really kind of up in the air between Node and Python because Python is just like a much nicer language to write in. And then I heard about Go. And so this is 2013. And the first thing that made me super interesting and go where it's credentials and so go was created at Google, which you probably already know. And they started creating it in 2007. So in 2006, Intel released the first dual core processor. And then in 2007 go started create it. Google started creating the go programing language. And they started to create it because they wanted to take advantage of multiple cores. And so it's no coincidence 2006 first dual core release 2007. Google starts creating a new language to take advantage of multiple cores. And prior to that every other language in the marketplace that had any viability or had any sort of user base. And all of those languages are written to take advantage of a single core. And so go is the first viable like language written to easily take advantage of multiple cores to run and distributed environments on multiple machines with multiple cores and easily take advantage of that. It's statically typed. It's garbage compiled. It has fast build times, fast, super fast executions, super fast. And it and it has ease of programing. And so if you look at the AC, AQ Golang talk about why is Google creating a new language, they were really gone for those three things. They didn't want two of the three, they wanted all three. They wanted fast builds, fast execution and ease of programing, something that programed like Python and dynamic language. But it had the benefits of being a compiled language with static type checking And so, you know, that all sounded great. And the fact that it was created by Google, again, the credentials were what sold me on go is created by Google. At Google in 2007. They started and they enlisted the help of Rob Pike, Ken Thompson or Robert Gresham or these are the people who led the project and are leading it. And these are some of the same these are heavy hitters in computer science. These are some of the same people who helped helped create the C programing language Unix and UTF8. And so that's like the bedrock of computer science, the C programing language. Are you kidding me? Unix, that operating system. Yeah, I've heard that. And UTSA, the world's most popular encoding scheme. Huge. And so the credentials of Go Girl created at Google by Google to do what Google does, which is like massive at scale super performant web stuff. Right. Whoa. Why would I use that language for server side for web development? That is like the no brainer perfect ultimate choice. You know, I mean, it's the language built to do the web. Google is rewriting Google and go. YouTube is like, all right, rewritten and go. And and so learning all that is like, I totally want to get into this language. And so, yeah, those are the reasons I chose go for web development. I'm just looking my notes over here to see if there's anything else I want to say about that. That's it. Last thing I want to say is, in 2009, it was open sourced. And in 2012, it was made version one and 20. 13. I started learning it And when I started learning it, it was still there weren't a lot of resources out there on go. Just even learning the language. I read a book originally written in Chinese and translated to English because God is really popular in Chinese. Because when you build web apps in China, right? It goes really popular in China. Because when you build web apps in China, you're building it for like 1.3 billion people and you need something that can handle that. So go is quickly picked up over in China because they're like, hey, this is the solution. This is doing what no other languages can do. All right. So those are my reasons. For Go and why you should choose it for web dev. You're absolutely in the right place. And this is the best choice for doing web dev today. And we're still on the very new side of this language being introduced, but it's captured huge market momentum. And my friend Bill Kennedy at Art and Labs is the world's leading corporate trainer for the go programing language. And so Bill and I talk and I hear every week. Are you kidding? Me? You're at that corporation. And and so it's just really picked up a ton of momentum and which is why I'm sure you're here, because you're interested in it. And you've heard about it. And so I've taught go at the college and university level to undergraduates and graduates of computer science. I've been through the course seven times. And so I really refined this code base in this code base. Was originally Caleb Doxy helping create this code base? And so you have a really good code pathway here to learn the go programing language for doing web development. And yeah, you're in good company. So I'm excited to share this material with you. And I got up at 1 a.m. this morning, right? Because it's like I got two kids, I got family, and there's only just rambling and there's only so much time. And it's like, I need to get this out there because I have a lot of people are like, when are you going to release the course? Here it is. It's on its way. We made the first video. All right, so welcome. And that's why you should choose go for server side web development.