Comparing C and Go Lang - My first impression
Of late we are hearing a lot about go lang (https://golang.org/). I was also curious about this. I wanted to run some experiments with go and C. As expected, the experiment was started with "hello world". Here is the C code that I have used: ------------------------------------------------ #include "stdio.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("hello, world\n"); return 0; } ------------------------------------------------ Corresponding go code is: ------------------------------------------------ package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("hello, world\n") } ------------------------------------------------ Well, both of them look simple. But I was astonished after creating the exe file. Below are the sizes of exe files created by C ( 51k ) and Go( 2MB ) 06/03/2016 03:41 PM 51,712 hello_c.exe 06/03/2016 03:37 PM 2,434,560 hello_go.exe I understand that go can do l