alt Hacker News>>That's where languages like Rust and Go come in. They offer native performance,
I'm not sure Go can offer native performance.
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a-v-berezkin • yesterday at 11:56 AM
A fair notice. In terms of performance, Go is similar to Java. Sth between scripting and native.
“Native performance” in this context means compared to scripting languages, not low-level languages like C. Of course, Go offers native performance relative to JavaScript. Your comment seems to assume the author was comparing Go to more systems-level languages like Rust or C. In those cases, Go may lag behind, but it still qualifies as native performance.