The most difficult task for any CIO or CTO is to choose a technology with suits their customer’s need. It also depends on previous experience of leadership technology team with any specific programming language. The most common factors are:

• Development objectives
• Nature of business
• Resources availability
• Technology maturity
• Community support
• Cost
• Scalability
• Security
• Implementation time & efforts

and many more….

I have been receiving many queries about choosing one programming languages out of Golang, Node.js and Python. Again, it would be very difficult to suggest single technology for all kind of business needs and situation so I thought of listing pros and cons of all 3 technologies.

Golang advantages and limitations:

Advantages:

• Easy to Learn
• Built-in Testing Frameworks
• Strong Garbage Collection Feature
• High Concurrency
• Open Source in Nature
• Fast Compilation

Disadvantage:

• Poor Abstraction Support
• Not a General Purpose Language
• Asynchrony is Tough

Node.js advantages and limitations:

Advantages: –

• Open Source
• Scalable for Microservices
• Cashing support
• Rest API Support
• Community Support
• Fast Processing

Disadvantage:

• Multi-threading is Tough
• Poor in Executing Synchronous
• Not Good for Large Computation Works

Python advantages and limitations:

Advantages:

• Extensive Supporting Libraries
• Easy to Learn and Read
• Great Choice for Prototyping and R&D
• It is Object Oriented
• Extensible in C++ & C

Disadvantage:

• Slow Execution Speed
• Not Good for Game or Mobile Development
• High Memory Consumption