> they clearly want the performance - the algorithms (as you can easily see in the repo) are trivial, its just a huge amount of data to process > C++ can shine

> they clearly want the performance - the algorithms (as you can easily see in the repo) are trivial, its just a huge amount of data to process > C++ can shine here And my point is: it didn't. And it didn't because of the learning curve involved. It's only the better solution if the knowledge is invested in ahead of time, and if the gains don't outweigh those you'd get from Go by an amount that greatly exceeds the time invested to net them, then it's not the better choice.