[stpedgwdgfhgdd]

There is an interview with the architect and he explained that Go language maps quite nicely onto the Typescript language (e.g. garbage collector). And of course a lot faster due to concurrency and native binary. 6 times increase iirc.

[pjmlp]

Indeed, and then at BUILD he ended up describing how they needed anyway to redo all data structures due to differences on the type system.