> Wasn't large compilation time driving forces behind writing Go yes, that was one of the tenants. > Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web br

> Wasn't large compilation time driving forces behind writing Go yes, that was one of the tenants. > Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web browser? In theory its fine; but there's a lot of historical baggage that comes along with garbage collection and the majority of languages that support it (e.g. almost no value types). Golang fairs pretty well latency wise for a GC'd language. I'd be curious for someone with more experience than me to talk through a deep dive of instances where go's latency/throughput characteristics are and are not good enough for specific applications.