I dislike Go as a language for a variety of reasons, but nothing really objective. I can agree with your sentiment that if performance is important from the ou

I dislike Go as a language for a variety of reasons, but nothing really objective. I can agree with your sentiment that if performance is important from the outset, that writing everything in a language more performant by default is a smart move. In a particular case for me, the project evolved organically, and I learned performance bottlenecks along the way. The actual functions I rewrote in C were fairly small.