Why go language is suitable for blockchain
a total of 22 weeks, divided into five stages,
the first stage is 4 weeks, go language foundation and network concurrency, learning the introctory go language,
the second stage is 4 weeks, go language practical web development, crawler development, cryptography, consensus algorithm, realizing lightweight public chain, learning the website and crawler that can develop golang, Achieve lightweight blockchain
stage 3, 4-week Ethereum source code analysis and smart contract DAPP development, master Ethereum core and smart contract development, as well as blockchain,
stage 4, 4-week super ledger, bitcoin EOS, source code analysis and smart contract practice, master super ledger development, cat bitcoin, bifurcated EOS after learning, As well as DAPP development of smart contract
phase 5, 6-week project practice, five enterprise level projects, and one year of blockchain project experience after learning
from the characteristics of the language itself, go is a very efficient language, which highly supports concurrency. Go language itself pays more attention to distributed system, and concurrency processing is relatively good, such as advertising and search, That kind of high concurrency server
go language advantages:
excellent performance, can be directly compiled into machine code, does not rely on other libraries, go is extremely fast. Its performance is similar to Java or C + +
concurrency is supported at the language level, which is the biggest feature of go. It is born to support concurrency, and go is the concurrency supported in gene, which can make full use of multi-core and make it easy to use concurrency
the built-in runtime supports garbage collection, which is one of the features of dynamic language. Although GC is not perfect at present, it is enough to cope with most of the situations we can encounter, especially GC after go1.1
it's easy to learn. The authors of go language all have the gene of C, so go naturally has the gene of C. There are 25 go keywords, but the expressive ability is very strong. It almost supports most of the features you've seen in other languages: inheritance, overloading, object, etc
rich standard libraries, go has built a large number of libraries, especially the network library, which is also my favorite part< As like as two peas, br / > built-in powerful tools, Go language is built with many tools chain, the best should be gofmt tools, automatic formatting code, make team review become so simple, code format is exactly the same, it is very difficult to think differently.
cross platform compilation and fast compilation. Compared with the sluggish compilation speed of Java and C + +, the fast compilation time of go is a major efficiency advantage
disadvantages of go language:
package management: package management of go language is absolutely not perfect. By default, it has no way to make a specific version of the dependency library, nor can it create replicable builds. In contrast, python, node and Ruby all have better package management systems. However, with the right tools, the package management of go language can also perform well
lack of development framework: go language does not have a major framework, such as Ruby's rails framework, Python's Django framework or PHP's laravel. This is a heated discussion in the go language community, because many people think that we should not start with using frameworks. This is true in many cases, but if you just want to build a simple crud API, it's much easier to use Django / djrf, rails laravel, or Phoenix
exception handling: go language can help developers deal with compilation errors by simply returning errors (or call stack) through functions and expected calling codes. Although this method is effective, it is easy to lose the scope of the error, so it is difficult to provide meaningful error information to users. Error package can solve this problem by allowing us to add context and stack trace to return error
another problem is that we may forget to handle errors. Static analysis tools such as errcheck and megacheck can avoid these errors. Although these solutions are very effective, they may not be the right way.
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Looking at the proportion of go language in February this year, go language is still rising slowly. At present, this language is quite promising. If you are interested in go, you can switch to it< br />
1. Server programming: in the past, if you used C or C + + to do those things, go is very suitable, such as processing logs, data packaging, virtual machine processing, file system and so on
2, distributed system, database agent, middleware: for example, etcd
3. Network programming: at present, this area is the most widely used, including web application, API Application, download application, and the built-in net / HTTP package of go basically realizes all the network functions we usually use
4. Development of cloud platform: at present, many foreign cloud platforms are developing with go, and the well-known seven cattle cloud, Huawei cloud and so on all have procts that are developed with go and open source
5. Blockchain: at present, there is a saying that technical practitioners regard go language as the development language of blockchain instry. If you learn the blockchain technology, you will find that many blockchain systems and applications are developed with go. For example, ehtereum is the most famous public chain at present, and fabric is the most famous alliance chain at present. Both of them have go language versions, and go ehtereum is the version officially recommended by Ethereum
Many projects in the later stage of
are implemented by go language. This process is simpler than other languages, which also leads to the emergence of a large number of go language native development projects< br />