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by throwaway894345 1432 days ago
> also worth mentioning is that this is why people build projects like TinyGo and MicroPython – they love the language, but can't work with the trade-offs that the designers chose

It's not like small runtimes are fundamentally better in this regard. They work better for constrained environments, but they often make tradeoffs which are inappropriate for other use cases. It's hard to make a runtime that works for everything, and it's not necessarily even a worthwhile goal--you can use TinyGo when you're working in a constrained environment, use Go when you're not.