> I want to like GO but a language that targets native development but still uses garbage collection just seems like an odd pairing to me. Why? I don't see wha

> I want to like GO but a language that targets native development but still uses garbage collection just seems like an odd pairing to me. Why? I don't see what is weird about that combination. Garbage collection is usually something that is used in high-level languages, and high-level languages might as well be natively compiled as opposed to interpreted, running on a vm, etc. If anything, C/++ seems like the odd pair out with their more manual memory management among native languages.