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Frankly I don't know if Go passes any barometer for "important". I don't think it's significantly disrupting any particular space, so if that's the measure of a language's importance, I don't think Go's quite meeting that. I find it unlikely it ever will.

I don't think it was ever intended to be important in those terms, however. It was designed primarily to solve specific sets of problems at Google, but I don't think any sights were set on the C, Java or other related language worlds at large. From that perspective, I would argue that Go's actually been fairly successful.

I'd argue the Rust team is much more eager to be a real disrupter. I think in that sense, they're succeeding in ways and have not yet achieved success in others.