>I always thought of the Go team as mostly outsiders coming from Plan 9 who were being sponsored by Google, but otherwise aren't really an integral part of the

>I always thought of the Go team as mostly outsiders coming from Plan 9 who were being sponsored by Google, but otherwise aren't really an integral part of the company (but then again, I don't know much about Google's internal organization). Well Rob and Ken are from Bell/Plan 9, but Robert is from Java HotSpot. My understanding is they were allowed to take what was their "20%" side project and Go full-time once it showed promise for addressing Google's language problems. >`go run` isn't that fast, really. A simple "hello world" takes 320ms on my system, while the equivalent in C takes 40ms, and C++ takes 270ms. Shouldn't you be comparing Go to Python, Perl or PHP in the context of "go run"? Also, benchmarking "Hello World" programs is not usually a very meaningful activity in any context. > And again: that's coming from someone who likes Go for basically every other reason. I like Go too and I think we agree that the compile speed, while nice, is just gravy when it comes to what Go has to offer.