Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services gets with the Golang program
January 31, 2015
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Amazon Web Services already offers software development kits (SDKs) for Java, C#, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP and Objective C programming languages. Now it says it will add Go (aka Golang) to that list. More accurately, it says it’s taken over aws-go, an SDK developed by Stripe. The SDK is in a sort of beta stage, with work continuing.
While Go doesn’t have nearly as many users as Java or C — an IEEE Spectrum survey ranked it as the nineteenth most popular language between Scala and Arduino — it’s gained traction among developers. That’s especially true for those building cloud or web services infrastructure. Docker, which has taken the development world like a gale force wind, is written in Go, for example…
This slideshow explains why. Just ask Derek Collison, Founder and CEO of Apcera who called Golang’s rise to fame more than two years ago…
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