My opinion in this case is empirically checked. I am not saying this to start flame war, I am just showing my observations in particular example. I can also say that Rust regex implementation eats Go regex implementation by magnitudes (performance wise) and it will also be true and I am not looking for any flame war in this case also. I am only sharing my experience that I've backed up with proofs (code + perf results) for that particular use case. This is a factual discussion, I don't agree it's pointless.