Gopher Academy Blog Community Contributed Go Articles and Tutorials How I Came to This TL;DR; — We didn’t want to use simulators and using real device for experiments became infeasible, so I decided to build an emulator for 802.11-like networks. The first version was in C++ and it didn’t work well. I rewrote the simulator in Go and it gives twice throughput than C++ version and that’s what we are