This discussion is already dead, but for posterity: The real motivation was actually a performance improvement, as can be seen at https://github.com/golang/go/c

This discussion is already dead, but for posterity: The real motivation was actually a performance improvement, as can be seen at https://github.com/golang/go/commit/55c458e05f35d0d5d539107da07b744ad96f268e https://github.com/golang/go/commit/55c458e05f35d0d5d539107d...