Is Go a server side language or a client side?

[Marlon Fez]

Hello,

I just heard about go, a new good language, but I cannot find the answer to my question. Is this new programming language a server side (Back-End) language or a client side (Front-End) language?

I currently work with C# for server side work and JavaScript for client side. Is Golang work in both side like NodeJS?

Thanks

[Wim Lewis]

On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Marlon Fez <marlonf...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just heard about go, a new good language, but I cannot find the answer to my question. Is this new programming language a server side (Back-End) language or a client side (Front-End) language?

I currently work with C# for server side work and JavaScript for client side. Is Golang work in both side like NodeJS?

Go normally compiles to native code; it's a general-purpose language so you can run that code on servers or clients or wherever you like, but it is not normally a "compiles-to-JavaScript-and-runs-in-a-web-browser" language. (For example, you can write phone apps in Go, using it as a client-side/front-end language, but that's not the kind of front-end use I think you're asking about.)

There is a project to compile Go to JavaScript so you can use it in a web page as a "front-end" language, but I don't know much about it:

    https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

But the most common use of Go is as a server or systems language.