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The program is compiled really quickly, there is also a garbage collector and reflection supported as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The simple structure of Go makes it competitive enough compared to the Java programming language. The main features why developers start working with Golang are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Language&rsquo;s simplicity. It&rsquo;s quite easy to learn from scratch and even understand someone&rsquo;s code for experienced programmers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Speedy interface. It performs way faster than PHP, Python, or Ruby.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Featured tooling. Various sorts of frameworks allow you to write and test the codes, generate coverage reports and perform the static analysis as well. 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