Why not Go?

I wanted to share with you some performance data comparing the time it takes out to print “Hello World!\n” in a couple of popular server side languages.

You can see that Go outperformed everything else handily.

So my question to you is, why are we not using Go more in Puerto Rico? I don’t think this language gets enough attention in Puerto Rico. As to the “the lack of available trained software developers in Go” excuse, I submit to you that most software developers should be able to pick the basics of the language in less than a week.

OSX time command	cli Go	compiled Go	Node.js	Java	Groovy	compiled Groovy	Mono C#
real	0m0.013s	0m0.006s	0m0.056s	0m0.084s	0m0.547s	0m0.364s	0m0.031s
user	0m0.005s	0m0.001s	0m0.040s	0m0.072s	0m0.900s	0m0.617s	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.007s	0m0.004s	0m0.015s	0m0.018s	0m0.087s	0m0.060s	0m0.008s

Here is the software I used for the test:
go version go1.6 darwin/amd64
node version v5.6.0
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_40-b27)
Groovy Version: 2.4.6 JVM: 1.8.0_40 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Mac OS X
Mono release is: 4.2 SR1 (4.2.2.30)

hello.go

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
        fmt.Printf("Hello World!\n")
}

hello.js (Node.js)

console.log("Hello World!\n");

Hello.java

public class Hello {
   public static void main(String[] args){
      System.out.println("Hello World!\n");
   }
}

hello.groovy

System.out.println("Hello World!\n");

hello.cs (C#)

using System;
 
public class HelloWorld
{
    static public void Main ()
    {
        Console.WriteLine ("Hello World!\n");
    }
}