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I still love Go, but I think Rust is a better fit for very performance sensitive systems software like a database.
You can write a database in Go, sure, but if you want to compete at the very top end, you need all the control. Go is nice in the way that Go is nice (if you even agree with that statement) precisely because it doesn't have that control. Unless it is a terminal goal for a database to be in Go simply to be in Go (BoltDB seems to fit into this category) or you don't care to compete at the very top end, I think it's a m…
What problem, according you, is Go "trying" to solve?