Decentralization Gains Traction: Go-Ethereum Fifth Most Active on Github

Decentralization Gains Traction: Go-Ethereum Fifth Most Active on Github
Bear markets refine industries. Overall sentiment becomes negative from all angles, and naysayers proclaim that crypto is “dead.”Underneath all the fear, uncertainty and doubt, though, developers are still building. Case in point, Go-Ethereum (or geth), a command-line interface for running an Ethereum node using the Go programming language, is now the fifth fastest growing, open-source project in GitHub. The other projects above go-ethereum on the list are azure-docs from Microsoft Azure, pytorch from Facebook, godot from the GoDot Gaming Engine and nuxt.js, a Javascript framework. For the uninitiated, geth is the official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol. At the time of writing, go-ethereum has over 10,000 commits on GitHub as well as over 21,000 stars, indicating the amount of developer interest for the project in this iteration is high. Why Geth Over Eth and Pyethapp?Go, commonly referred to as Golang, was developed by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. Per the golang.org website, “Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for the work we were doing at Google.” The language enables higher productivity than languages in an era of complex processors and large computer networks. Consequently, it has been adopted by developers around the world. Go-ethereum is by far the most active project in the Ethereum ecosystem, but there are several ... For Further Information Click on Below Button
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