Filmed at https://2017.dotgo.eu on November 6th in Paris. More talks on https://dotconferences.com/talks While Go is not designed for parallel programming, it nevertheless has features that are beneficial for parallelism, especially a work-stealing scheduler for goroutines and a concurrent, parallel garbage collector. Pascal presents an evaluation of programming languages for expressing DNA sequencing pipelines, with Go along C++ and Java. Go hits a sweet spot of performing really well with little programming effort.