I write single-threaded Go all the time, and you can use most of the same optimizations in Go that you could use in C (including pools). It's pretty easy to opt

I write single-threaded Go all the time, and you can use most of the same optimizations in Go that you could use in C (including pools). It's pretty easy to opt out of GC in Go. And you still keep all of the other benefits of using a modern, higher-level language (security, memory safety, straightforward tooling, etc).