[lobster_johnson]

"Fix" in quotes, really -- I don't think the Go team ever pretended they were building a replacement, although they are certainly replacing C++ for their own work. That said, if you read Rob Pike's history of Go (previous link), they were mighty surprised to discover that Go didn't really entice C++ programmers at all; the crowd that Go appealed to were Ruby and Python developers who wanted a faster language that was still expressive and fast to compile.

[duaneb]

Well, it's basically duck typed, but without type values you can assign. Doesn't surprise me much.

[pjmlp]

Because he doesn't understand why we use languages like C++ in first place.