Sorry, I have no interest in getting into a religious flamewar. I will only say that I find it weird that you think that there aren't endless hacks and VMs in [insert here the languages you like].
Eh, vanilla Java or Go is at least an order of magnitude faster than those other languages without messing with anything. You can mess around with the JVM and interfacing to native code but it's rarely needed because it's already within a low multiple of C performance writing things normally.
Arguments about what language is better are pretty flamey but it's hard to argue that performance is not an advantage of Go/Java
