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> "Python & C# require runtimes. And those runtimes will have an overhead."

Golang also has a runtime with memory safety, garbage collection, and threading. It's just linked into the native executable and run alongside without a VM but still present.

> "That just reeks of arrogance... costs will be less for programs produced by Go / C (and C++ too)"

You claimed that costs would be the least with Go without any other context. This is neither related to my point (that all stacks get faster over time) nor accurate since other languages are used in similar environments delivering the same or better performance and costs. Again this comes down to "optimization" being far broader than just the language or compilation process.




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