Maybe so, although I don't recall it being that bad.
replyBut Go wasn't designed for CLI apps. It was designed for writing highly multi-threaded servers at Google, according to the designers, hence the focus on features like goroutines. And in that context startup time just doesn't matter. Startup time of servers at Google was (in that era) dominated by cluster scheduling, connecting to backends, loading reference data and so on. Nothing that a change in programming language would have fixed.
Google didn't use classloader based frameworks so that also wasn't relevant.
Golang is frequently used for CLIs, even if it wasn't designed for that exactly
replyIf you want to write CLI tool, you use Rust.
replyOr you use Golang? A lot of the time there isn't a big difference.
replyWho said that? Go is pretty amazing to whip up great CLIs quickly.
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replylol
replyNot when using commercial JDKs, but naturally most HNers never worked on companies that paid for those.
replyFor example initial JIT caching experiments on OpenJDK came from J/Rockit.