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by brightball 2669 days ago
Depends on the definition of superior.

If it's pure benchmarks, then Go is usually going to come in a little bit ahead.

When you get into comparing language design, underlying architectural decisions, problems solved/created/avoided by those decisions it gets more complex.

I did a big write up for code ship a couple of years ago. Had a solid discussion on HN and the comparison remains fairly accurate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13497505