This last option may work better for stand-alone distributed apps than for cloud or network services, where having debug information is useful if a service fails in place. Yet another touted feature of Go, automatic memory management, can be seen as a drawback, as garbage collection requires ...
This last option may work better for stand-alone distributed apps than for cloud or network services, where having debug information is useful if a service fails in place. Yet another touted feature of Go, automatic memory management, can be seen as a drawback, as garbage collection requires a certain amount of processing overhead.But Go’s future as a major programming language is already assured—certainly in the cloud, where the speed and simplicity of Go ease the development of scalable infrastructure that can be maintained in the long run. ... Serdar Yegulalp is a senior writer at InfoWorld.At InfoWorld, Serdar has covered software development, devops, containerization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, winning several B2B journalism awards including a 2024 Neal Award and a 2025 Azbee Award for best instructional content and best how-to article, respectively. He currently focuses on software development tools and technologies and major programming languages including Python, Rust, Go, Zig, and Wasm.This approach simplifies the build and deployment process, but at the cost of a simple “Hello, world!” weighing in at around 1.5MB on 64-bit Windows. The Go team has been working to reduce the size of those binaries with each successive release. It is also possible to shrink Go binaries with compression or by removing Go’s debug information.