Golang Vs. Scala

Golang and Scala are both very popular, strongly typed languages. Due to this, Programmers can catch bugs at compile time, rather than runtime. Both excel in the art of concurrency which is of crucial importance due to the growing popularity of Distributed Computing. Yet on most popularity comparisons, Golang Ranks way above Scala. Be it regarding popularity with developers or Functionality Golang outperforms Scala on several levels. Keeping the average read time in mind let's list out just a few:

Scala is difficult to learn:

Imagine you have a brand-new luxury car and need a chauffeur to drive you around. However, sadly the car has a stick gear shift which is somewhat tricky for your chauffeur to maneuver leading to a lousy ride experience for you. Now imagine the same car has an automatic gear shift and your chauffer enjoys the easy drive thus leading to a great drive experience for you.

Well, Scala is like the Stick Gear shift car which the developer finds challenging to learn and use. This leads to a poorly formatted program which leads to poor end user experience. Being an industrial language Scala brings functional programming to the JVM, but not with a "start small and grow the language" perspective, but rather a compelling language for professional programmers. This can be intimidating for most developers.  As a result, the poorly written code leads to poorly functioning Programs.

Golang, in contrast, is like an Automatic gear simple to learn and simple to write. The resulting Programs function more smoothly as the ease of creation for the developer spills on to the end user experience.

Slow compilation and deployment in Scala: The slowness of Scala compiler can be a source of constant frustration for the developer again. Combined with a big monolith and a complex dependency tree with a complicated resolving mechanism will mean wastage of many man hours for the company. Slow compilation leads to lengthy deployment which in turn is an issue if you wish for agile deployments.

Golang, on the other hand, is a fast performing language due to its model for software construction that makes dependency analysis easy and results in faster compilation and eventual deployment which leads to a short Time-To-Market.

Scala IDE support is poor. You might face issues with multiple Scala version projects (different versions on different modules), and this makes it impractical to support optimize imports, non-grep-based jump to definition, and the like. This means that all open-source and community-driven IDEs (e.g., vim, Emacs, atom) will have less-than-ideal feature sets. The language is too complex to make tooling for.

Golang has Golang IDE and visual code IDE. This is feature rich function which is beneficial for the developer and ultimately leads to a more Functionality Rich Program.

Golang suitable for Larger Projects: Scala is a language created entirely from scratch and has stringent opinions about how code must be structured. Golang one the other hand has automatic code formatting. As there is only one way to format code, and all the tools do the formatting programmers save hours of work which can be deployed into creating a more functional programme. In larger projects where there are more than just a few developers working this can be a considerable advantage as it also reduces Time-To-Market.

Considering the above factors, I recommend Enterprise Solutions to be developed in Golang due to the multitude of its advantages. Golang has been developed in keeping with the requirements of modern businesses which need dynamic, stable and error-free solutions. To know more about Golang Enterprise Solutions, drop me a message or Contact us here.