> Go is garbage-collected just like .NET. And I bet the .NET GC is much better than Go. But what I was trying to say is that is very common in .NET to build l

> Go is garbage-collected just like .NET. And I bet the .NET GC is much better than Go. But what I was trying to say is that is very common in .NET to build layers of layers of abstraction. .NET is still largely used by a lot of "enterprisey" developers with bad or non-existence training. With Go you get a much simpler deal: You have structs (like POCOS in C#) and you pass them. Sometimes, you put traits. Is alike what is preached for good F#/C# code, but .NET still carry the inertia. However, if you get into .NET with modern runtime (aka: around 4.5+) and idioms then I think the results will be very good.