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by throwaway894345 1516 days ago
Go strives for a balance. It tries to be a fast language without trading off everything else to that end. So it has a GC and really fast builds and it produces machine code that isn't as aggressively optimized as Rust or C++, but it does so much more quickly (as you noted). These are ideal tradeoffs for a huge swath of applications.