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The Go language, familiar to those working in the wonderful world of Docker, is inching its way into the Amazon Web Services environment. In what'll be seen as a big win for the language, AWS is working on adding Go to its existing suite of SDKs – Java, C#, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP and Objective C. Created by Google …

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  1. colinb

    Context please

    'porting its services to the language got it between two and fourfold performance improvements.'

    probably worth quoting what language they were moving from, Stripe started with Ruby so almost any other language that isn't Perl, Python or LUA would improve performance dramatically

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    1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Re: Context please

      Yep, the fact that Go compiles to machine code is certainly an advantage but the people I've spoken with say the built in parallelism is what makes it particularly attractive. Although I'm a Python fan I've got to say "Go Go!" here.

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