Looking into the language runtime

After writing your code and saving it, you are going to run it somewhere in your network. Go and Python have different ways to combine your source code and all imported libraries before running. Which one suits you more? Are there any relevant differences that are important to know? We’ll discuss that in this section.

What are compiled and interpreted languages?

After writing your code, some computer languages need to be compiled to run on your machine, though some don’t as they are interpreted line by line as it runs.

The languages that are compiled have to have a compiler that translates the source code into a series of bits and bytes that can run on the CPU architecture of your computer; it also has to link all static and dynamic system libraries. For instance, a computer with an Apple M1 processor will have a different compiler than an Apple with an Intel x86 processor. The result after the compilation is a binary program...