Pedantry. When people talk about Go, they usually mean the official implementation.
gccgo has too many issues (lags behind release, requires gcc recompile, etc.) to be useful to most people.
gccgo has too many issues (lags behind release, requires gcc recompile, etc.) to be useful to most people.
We have to dig through 30TB of images -- so the performance benefits we got from gccgo were worth the trivial effort it took to implement.