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I don't think the Golang people are parading it as a "systems language". Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C. I thin

I don't think the Golang people are parading it as a "systems language". Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C. I think they succeeded with that. But I don't think anyone expects a language with enforced safety and built-in garbage collection to be faster than C. That just isn't going to be possible.

myg204 11y ago
> Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C. Right, and also fast compilation. I remember reading the goal was ~20% slower than C for overall performance.