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by stiray 1950 days ago
I am not saying Go is faster or anything I am just saying that take the grain of salt with reading the benchmarks as they are on same level as googling for "best microwave oven in 2021" where you know it is better not to even start reading the results as they will be full of paid "fake" reviews. Not to even start about microwave oven brand fanboys.

You have to understand that the programming language is a product in same way as anything else and there are influencers, marketing bribes, paid advertisements, forum/hn/fb/... paid spammers, etc.

Just remember what spam spike the Rust (I am again not talking about rust as a language... just about the noise everyone made) had here when it emerged, they threw the shadow on the Nigerian spam, oh the amount of noise from Rust-Distributed-Evangelist-Task-Force (they will probably downvote me to hell for mentioning this :D), I had a lot of fun reading HN at that time, the most used word was 'and', the second was 'rust', it was so exaggerated that it was like watching Monty Python.

In today world the only review, or if you want, benchmark, is the one you make. Nothing else counts and if you feel that C# is faster then enjoy using it.

And quite frankly, who cares about speed today (except some very strange people like me), people are using very strange languages and want to run them on backend. And they actually do. Ignore the benchmarks, no one cares (except those that would like to advertise themself like "faster than C" :D). Just threw in some more vapor on the cloud and you have "fixed" the speed issues. /s