When Go first came out, it was better than C# in terms of support for concurrency, stand-alone binaries, and cross-platform. It seems that C# has done a lot of catching up since then, though.
I have not begun really using Go in earnest yet, but at least in the cloud engineering world it seems to be the language of choice (along with Python) due to the ease of using its concurrency capabilities
Because it was made to run on Linux from the start. I remember being excited to work with .net core on Linux, then discovering that most of the system libraries for network programming and related were either not implemented or badly working, but you would only find out if dug deep into low level stuff. After that, I swore of using it seeing how much the hype for cross platform didn't match reality. Hopefully they fixed it, but seeing as there are other choices of languages, it wasn't so bad.
I was looking for similar benchmarks but couldn't find anything conclusive. I found the benchmark game [1] but only had .net 7 AoT (not .net 8) benchmarks and memory consumption seems too high.
I'd ditch golang on a pinch as soon as I can use a decent type system, and C# seems like a great alternative.
Crystal would be my ideal but its compiler is still too slow, sadly.
I'm very curious to see how they managed to pull this off since from my knowledge of the development patterns, .net has historically been much more allocation-heavy (not that it isn't very efficient with allocated data).
