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Discussion on: what's the advantage of golang instead of java or C# ?

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When it comes to performance, a benchmark is better than one person's opinion, because we all have our personal preferences of course.
For example:
benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.n...
This shows that sometimes Go is faster, sometime C# is faster, depending on what you are doing.

I prefer C# because it gives me a choice from a wide range of language features. More than I need sometimes. But at least I have these features available to me, if I did need them. So for example, LINQ is there, but I don't have to use it. But I can't imagine using a language that lacks generics, that would be a big leap backwards.

I came from a C++ background and it took me one week, on the job, to become a productive C# developer. I was choosing to use the basic language features and that was fine for what we were doing.