Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18

Re:Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18 by pjmlp on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:15AM (#30219703)

The issue here is how many in the Go community like to boost themselves about how fast Go is, only because it is the very first AOT compiled language that they ever used, usually come form scripting language backgrounds and are influenced by the traditional Java/.NET hate, without ever using them in anger, including their AOT tooling.

So then we come these kind of assertions like Go compiles faster than any other AOT language, it doesn't have a runtime, its performance beats Java/.NET and so on.

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Re:Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18 by throwaway894345 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @10:32AM (#30222036)

I’m sure if you searched hard you could find a few people in the Go community who say silly things like that, but (1) you could find these kinds of people in any community and (2) in the Go community these people are quickly corrected and (3) no one in this thread is making these sorts of arguments (as far as I can tell) so your comment seems wildly off-topic.

Note the difference between “Go is better for certain cloud applications than Python, NodeJS, etc” and “Go is better than all other languages, full stop”.

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