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Would you recommend using Google Go with web.go, or Node.js for a new web server project which will involve high IO?

1st November 2010

My answer to Would you recommend using Google Go with web.go, or Node.js for a new web server project which will involve high IO? on Quora

If you already know JavaScript, picking up Node.js is pretty easy. It also has a much larger community of web developers around it at the moment than web.go, which means there’s more example code / open source bits and pieces floating around.

Posted 1st November 2010 at 6:54 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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