In the past when I was a Java developer we would run Sonar on our projects for static analysis. I have always liked the dashboard view it provides and the way it can find all sorts of problems in a code base that are often overlooked. When I learned that Sonar supported Go I knew that I would eventually integrate it into our environment. Since I had already built out our continuous integration pipeline in Bitbucket, I figured it would be easy to integrate Sonar into our builds. Little did I know that there wasn’t much documentation out there on the internet showing how to do so.

It has been a crazy few months in startup land. The interesting thing for me about startups is no matter how crazy it is compared to corporate work, I find myself really content amidst the chaos. The big change here is we have decided to build our backend architecture in Go instead of Java. Having done Java for 19 years this is a big change, but for business decisions we decided that the trade offs with Go were better for our long term business needs than the trade offs with Java. Now that I have been using it for a few months I figured I would discuss some of the differences between the languages and what I like and dislike about each.