> It's highly unlikely Go will be able to compete in terms of compiler optimizations because of it's goal of fast compilation speeds. For a given piece of code

> It's highly unlikely Go will be able to compete in terms of compiler optimizations because of it's goal of fast compilation speeds. For a given piece of code as written today, its compilation speed will naturally improve over time as processors get faster. Optimizing it to a certain degree becomes faster for the same reason. Therefore, assuming a fixed threshold for what constitutes "fast [enough] compilation", potential for more optimizations becomes available over time. > However, that's not to say Rust code is ugly, you can certainly write very nice looking code in Rust. That's true for many languages, including PHP or Perl. The problem is: once you use these languages more, you discover that most people don't do it (for various reasons, one of them often being that they're trying to be clever).