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by throwaway894345 2211 days ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Java, C#, and Python all tend to have slow CLIs. This is very much in-line with my experience. Even if the VMs do start up quickly, people tend to do a lot of expensive initialization, class loading, etc before the program starts. Go’s runtime is minimal by comparison and there is much less work done at initialization (by convention) than in Python, Java, etc.