🆚 Go vs. Ruby
- 📈 Ruby is much more popular than Go.
- 🌎 Ruby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Go is more popular in Saint Helena, Palau, and Mali.
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About
Go, also known as Golang, is a high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.
It features garbage collection, fast compilation, a large standard library, and built-in concurrency using goroutines and channels based on the communicating sequential processes model, where goroutines can start with about 2 KB of stack memory and scale to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent tasks.
Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.
It features a pure object model where everything is an object, dynamic typing, automatic memory management with garbage collection, and a standard library with over 100 built-in modules for tasks such as file handling, networking, and data processing.
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Latvia in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guatemala in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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