I don't understand any of your criticisms. What else would you expect to use to compile Go besides "a special build system"? A not-special build system? It's

I don't understand any of your criticisms. What else would you expect to use to compile Go besides "a special build system"? A not-special build system? It's a compiled language. You can, however, use gccgo to link Go code with C/C++ code. Both gccgo and cgo already use partial compilation. You can invoke the 6l, 8l, etc. commands directly if you really want to. One of the design goals was build speed. Shared libraries are on the roadmap. See issue https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=256 https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=256. Go does not "have to be main". You can use gccgo to mix Go code into your existing C or C++ binary. See http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo What the hell does "can't use with SELinux" mean? Are you talking about issue 871 that was fixed in 2010? You keep repeating over and over that Go is optimized for 32-bit systems. Repeating something doesn't make it true. In fact, exactly the opposite is true, however. Go uses a lot of address space, which is great on 64 bit, not so good on 32-bit. This has been discussed a lot years ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/428100/ http://lwn.net/Articles/428100/ is a good place to start. I've seen you repeat over and over in multiple discussion threads that having lots of kernel threads is no big deal. What you don't seem to realize is that in C/C++, thread overhead is somewhere between 1 MB and 2 MB a thread if you want to use pthreads and glibc and avoid random data corruption resulting from thread heap collisions (hint: you do). Linux also doesn't have an O(1) scheduler any more in mainline; it uses the completely fair scheduler (CFS), which has complexity O(log N). There are disadvantages to green threads, but to even start discussing this requires a lot more background than you have. Again, you can read about any of this on wikipedia, LWN.net, or even the replies that inevitably get made to all of your posts on HN. So learn already.