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Given that Go's original raison d'etre was Internet-facing services, the choice for guaranteed linear time execution makes sense as a default.

That ... isn't really true at all. Go's original raison was logs processing.

I'd be interested in reading more about that. Do you have a reference?

I think they're referring to Rob Pike's Sawzall language. However, I wouldn't call Go a descendant of it.