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by rcarmo 1070 days ago
Extremely minimal runtime, portability, and very low overhead when compared to other languages. I have a tiny statistics daemon that scrapes /proc and sends out multicast packets, and it builds and runs on everything from ARMv5 to Xeons, barely showing up on any kind of resource meter and with an absurdly small binary size.

I considered rewriting it in Go a couple of times but just didn’t see the point.