Good point about the registers. Most business apps don't do much number crunching or bit-twiddling. Think of moving strings/records/objects to and from a data

Good point about the registers. Most business apps don't do much number crunching or bit-twiddling. Think of moving strings/records/objects to and from a data store, putting them temporarily in an in-memory hierarchy or an indexed cache for lookup/evaluation, then pumping more strings to a browser / the console / a dialog box. I didn't pick the binary tree example to pick on Go, it's my "best match use case" for the "allocate and find things" that I envision goes on in most applications, regardless of which languages I am comparing.