Go for Data Science? Let’s try.

Can Google’s Golang handle data science? Let’s find out.

Can data science benefit from statically typed, compiled programming language? That’s what we’ll explore in this article.

Go, or Golang is a programming language very similar to C, but offers memory safety, garbage collection, and structural typing. It was designed by Google in 2007 with the aim of improving productivity in the era of multicore, networked machines, and large codebases[1].