&gt;3. Go is not a good candidate for this universal runtime in 2016 due its lack of a mature optimization pipeline. Maybe in a few years, but in the meantime you&#x27;d be better off using HotSpot or .NET for this purpose.<p>Go 1.7 on amd64 is looking to be pretty competitive (ranging to better than) with HotSpot or .NET in micro-benchmarks. Most of this is due to the new SSA compiler back-end. &quot;Years&quot; might be a pessimistic appraisal.