> and with the same engineering resources put behind it, a cut-down version of Kotlin would easily be able to achieve build times in the ballpark of generic-ena

> and with the same engineering resources put behind it, a cut-down version of Kotlin would easily be able to achieve build times in the ballpark of generic-enabled Go. So basically no real example. It is only what would be possible if things were to happen certain way. > It may be enough to write one-off command line applications, but it doesn't give developers the tools to create complex distributed systems in a systematic, clean way This is just arrogant opinion. Distributed tools and applications like NATS, Kubernetes, Docker, CockroachDB and so many other exist and written in Go. Developers who can't write distributed systems themselves can ofcourse buy or license tools from vendors. And at that point, honestly, it could have been written in any language.