Hi Alex, I'm an amateur programming language enthusiast & designer, so I've a question related to this.

Looks like the project is mostly written in C++ and Go. What was the reason for this choice? Have you considered other languages, like Rust, Zig or similar instead of C++? TBH not sure what an alternative to Go would be, maybe JVM AOT-compiled with NativeImage (but AFAIK that's still experimental).

Did Go's GC and/or C++'s lack of GC help/impede the project? IMO memory management is one of the main differences between languages... the other is concurrency / memory model / undefined behavior, where JVM is significantly ahead of the rest (no undefined behavior), I'm not sure exactly where Go stands (there seems to be a memory model, but no mention of undefined behavior or lack thereof).