Is Go Fast? Go is faster than interpreted languages like python in terms of sheer execution since it’s compiled to native executable format. Go is slower than other compiled languages like C,Rust in terms of execution. This is primarily because although compiled go runs with a ‘runtime’ which does some housekeeping (scheduling and multiplexing goroutines, managing/freeing memory (GC) etc). This overhead is much smaller than a virtual machine required for languages like java but is an overhead nonetheless.

Go’s approach to Object Go is a fairly simplistic language and doesn’t come with inbuilt classes and other features that most object oriented programming languages have. It gives you building blocks in the form of structs and it’s upto programmer to design the abstraction around it. There is no inheritence - Go takes a very strong stance on composition over inheritence camp. (even other languages have practitioners who preach composition over inheritence but it’s not strictly enforced).