Are You a Polyglot? Creating the Same API in Three Languages: GoLang, Python, and JavaScript

Abstract

As software developers we typically use the tools we feel most comfortable with, but when it comes to backend APIs there’s a ton of languages, libraries, and tools to choose from. It’s important to be able to identify the benefits of each language to determine what is best for our use case. In this talk, we’ll compare the advantages and disadvantages to creating an API in 3 popular languages along with their runtime environments; GoLang, Python and Flask, and Typescript and NodeJS.