> Apparently they wrote their own rather than using something established like LLVM, and this is the result. Go is self-hosted, and compilation is much faster

> Apparently they wrote their own rather than using something established like LLVM, and this is the result. Go is self-hosted, and compilation is much faster than any LLVM-based compiler I know. Those are valuable properties. We can argue about how valuable, but it's not nearly as simple as a case of NIH as you're implying.