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by flavio81 2607 days ago
>You have heard of C?

I'm an experienced C developer.

>which keeps a lot of virtues of C

No, C doesn't have many virtues. It's major virtue was getting close to being a macro assembler, and Go removes that completely. Go tries to be a higher-level-than-C language with good execution speed, but that goal was already achieved perfectly by Object Pascal, D, Ada, and Common Lisp.