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Both GCC and LLVM can compile Go code.


That's a bit of an oversimplification.

About llvm, there's a WIP prototype that doesn't quite work yet[0].

And about GCC, GccGo is behind in Go's version. GCC 7 only supports Go 1.8 (with caveats). Also, it had issues at some point[2] (but this is from 2014, it may have been fixed since then).

And, on a more pragmatic point of view, when talking about Go, the huge majority talks about Go compiled with the standard Go compiler. That's why you here a lot of positive feedback about compile-times for instance.

[0]: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/README.TXT [1]: https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo#Releases [2]: https://talks.golang.org/2014/gocon-tokyo.slide#54




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