title: Performance-focused desktop-program: Ruby or Go?
body: <p>I currently don't know either of the two languages. Design of a piece of software is close to complete.</p>
  
  <p>The intriguing:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Ruby: Enjoyable. Follows thought process. Made for humans.</li>
  <li>Go: Good performance. Fast compile times.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I don't know about Ruby's performance. If it's a lot slower than Go, I'll go with the latter (talking about typical speed here).</p>
  
  <p>I'll learn both eventually, but right now, this will determine which one first.</p>
  
  <p>Update: It's a very basic image-editing program. Technical and especially perceived speed should be high. Startup time is especially important.</p>