> Go has a whole runtime to boot up before ever getting to that point. Many, many layers of setup code. So it's not surprising at all that it has a significantly slower "cold boot"

That’s one misconception you have about Go, when it comes to Cold start uptimes Go is one of the top garbage collected language to compete the likes of C, the go runtime is a progressive runtime it runs together with your code so it’s basically a Vlang code with added C codes