> I wonder if the Go team has determined any way to mitigate these long-running GC pauses for apps that don't allocate often since this article was published.

> I wonder if the Go team has determined any way to mitigate these long-running GC pauses for apps that don't allocate often since this article was published. Go 1.12 might have addressed this particular issue [0, 1], but it's possible that that came out too late for Discord to try before deciding to rewrite the service. [0]: From Go 1.12 patchnotes: "Go 1.12 significantly improves the performance of sweeping when a large fraction of the heap remains live." [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/eywx4q/why_discord_is_switching_from_go_to_rust/fgnp7h4/ https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/eywx4q/why_discord_...