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Java vs Go for a new high-throughput backend service

Our org is 80% Java (Spring Boot). A new pricing service needs to handle ~20K rps with p99 under 50ms and scale out quickly on Kubernetes. Go keeps coming up because of memory footprint and startup time. With virtual threads (Loom) and GraalVM native images, has the Java gap…

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RSRavi Shah6votes3comments665views6d ago

Enterprise ecosystem ↔ Simplicity and performance

Java 44%Go 56%

9 engineers chose

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Rust vs Go for a CLI tool distributed to thousands of developers

We're building a developer CLI (think: code generation, local dev environment orchestration). Needs to be a single binary for macOS, Linux and Windows. Team knows Go better; a couple of engineers are keen on Rust.

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KWKenji Watanabe4votes2comments544views2w ago

Performance ↔ Development speed

Rust 40%Go 60%

10 engineers chose

Java vs Go for a new high-throughput backend service

Rust vs Go for a CLI tool distributed to thousands of developers

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