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by dagw 460 days ago
Two things that have brought up in interviews. They don't seem to believe that AOT compiled C# is mature enough and can give the best possible performance on all their supported platforms. Their current codebase consists of more or less pure functions acting on simple data structures and since they want the port to be as 1:1 as possible, idiomatic Go is closer to that style than idiomatic C#.

See this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830 for much more discussion.