[Karrot_Kream]

I'm not disagreeing with you (I've previously criticized Go here) but I think it's helpful to think of Go as a more "modern" C. A lot of the warts you see here (Cludgey POSIX interfaces, no smart scheduling around channel error handling, bad reflection semantics, etc.) are the same as you'd find in C.

[brian-armstrong]

Except, it's not a compelling replacement of C. The type system doesn't give me good assurances about program behavior at compile time. Go inserts itself as a heavy unwanted additional layer for cases where I want C. Especially considering that now my program will have GC pauses.