As we are - according to some expert opinions - living in the Century of Biology, I found it interesting to reflect on Go’s usage within the field. Go has some great features that make it really well suited for biology, such as: A relatively simple language that can be …
TL;DR: We wrote a post on gopherdata.io, about the growing ecosystem of Go-based workflow tools in bioinformatics. Go read it here It is interesting to note how Google’s Go programming language seems to increase in popularity in bioinformatics. Just to give a sample of …
I’ve been following the development of D , Go and Rust (and also FreePascal for some use cases ) for some years (been into some benchmarking for bioinfo tasks ), and now we finally have three (four, with fpc) stable statically compiled languages with some momentum behind …
