Performance is a spectrum and Go hits a sweet spot between ease of development and "good enough" performance by default with enough escape hatches to get "compe

Performance is a spectrum and Go hits a sweet spot between ease of development and "good enough" performance by default with enough escape hatches to get "competitive with C/C++" performance in critical paths when needed. Just because you're using a GC'd language doesn't mean that you should give no thought whatsoever to the garbage your program is generating.