[roca]

That's true. The comment by mlwiese up-thread, that I responded to, praised Go's low GC latency without mentioning the heavy memory and throughput overheads that come with it. I felt it worth pointing out the lack of a free lunch there; I think a lot of casual Go observers and users aren't aware of it.

[pjmlp]

Agreed, although if Go had proper support for explicit value types (instead of relying in escape analysis) and generics, like e.g. D, Nim, that could be improved.