On: Why I Like Go

[shadowmint]

It's not a scientific test or anything, but the results are so marked it's almost worth not even bothering to measure it:

24k loc of C (24743 total excluding headers and comments), using ninja and cmake, without using the autofail tool suite (which ups the time taken about about 150%):

    $ time make
    ...
    real	0m16.929s
    user	0m9.952s
    sys	0m4.641s

23kloc of go code (23588 total excluding comments):

    $ time go build
    ...
    real	0m1.667s
    user	0m1.331s
    sys	0m0.214s