Not to contradict your point but be careful on putting too much weight on microbenchmarks for they are implementation sensitive. For example, here you can see G

Not to contradict your point but be careful on putting too much weight on microbenchmarks for they are implementation sensitive. For example, here you can see Go on par, if not faster, than other stacks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=ph&test=plaintext https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=... I consider a good number of modern platforms fast enough for most uses. When tight requirements arise, which is rare, I resort to PoC implementations rather than microbenchmarks. There's a lot to more to consider than raw performance.