Go isn't the most efficient language for these sorts of things, but it's also not bad (and Go itself is not really the bottleneck for real-world AWK scripts). T

Go isn't the most efficient language for these sorts of things, but it's also not bad (and Go itself is not really the bottleneck for real-world AWK scripts). That said, GoAWK is useful mainly when you want to use AWK scripts in a Go program (the Benthos stream processor does this: https://www.benthos.dev/docs/components/processors/awk/ https://www.benthos.dev/docs/components/processors/awk/). I also did a project recently, creatively called AWKGo, that compiles (a subset of) AWK scripts to Go source code: https://benhoyt.com/writings/awkgo/ https://benhoyt.com/writings/awkgo/