[pdeuchler]

Your experience mimics my experience almost exactly (although it sounds like you've worked on much larger and more complex C++ projects than I have), however I've been lucky enough to work with some extremely talented C++ programmers that have been able to accomplish astounding things with good, clean, C++ code. The problem, of course, is that 99.9% of us are not extremely talented C++ programmers.

[akavel]

Ok; so if you confirm my experience, I don't understand how you can at the same time claim Go is "backwards to C++" w.r.t. concurrency & race conditions. Did you mistype "superior" as "backwards"? Btw, we also had extremely talented C++ programmers. Some of them sent ISO C++ proposals from time to time, and I think were even accepted.