Let me repeat the last slide from that deck : Conclusion Go is simpler to compile than most languages There are still complexities for the compiler

Let me repeat the last slide from that deck : Conclusion Go is simpler to compile than most languages There are still complexities for the compiler Most complexities stem from making Go easier to write I would also argue that if you take a compiler book, and you look up these problems, they're all solved. That is certainly not true for most other languages such as Prolog, Haskell, Java, Rust or D, especially not at the time they were written. Most of those added a chapter or two to our knowledge of compilers. Or ten, in the case of Haskell.