[whyever]

> "systems language" is a pretty vague term, but one of the things I think is important is that memory be manually managed

Go does not let you manage memory manually.

[hardwaresofton]

You're absolutely right -- I didn't think I had to re-state that here since it's like the second sentence of the original comment. That's also why I went into qualifying "systems" language, some might consider golang a systems language, even though it very much does not allow manual memory management, which is why it's vague (and I put it in quotes).