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Lots of pedants like to dump on these sorts of articles but there are enough interesting things to see, even in a relatively trivial comparison like this.

It is interesting that some systems allocate more memory up-front but this doesn't grow much per-task.

It is interesting that in the form the app was written the Go program doesn't appear to scale as well. Sure there are possibly reasons for it so anyone with more knowledge of Go could attempt to write a more "correct" program and ask to rerun it.

It is interesting that with the defaults, things behave as they do, again, someone who cares more about "it's just that the defaults are different" is welcome to investigate that and ask "why" some program defaults might lead to better performance.

It is interesting that as-in most comparisons, the languages/frameworks don't neatly fit into Stereotypes.

It is interesting that most of them probably perform well enough for 99% of applications we might write.

It seems like most people still don't appreicate that YMMV and that trade-offs are always made. Just add it to your stash of brain juice that helps you become a better engineer and stop complaining.



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