[zmmmmm]

My interest in Go stems from its potential to replace C as a systems programming language. Basically, it seems like everything that has been tried for improving upon C has failed. However this is not because C doesn't have problems, rather it's because every replacement has been trying to achieve other things at the same time and has introduced complexities that made things worse.

So I think it's interesting to have a language that is finally being built with the primary purpose of being better than C at systems programming. My main issue however is the lack of support for Windows. One of the main points of a system language and the reason C dominates is that with enough hacks you can make it portable to anywhere. I can understand the Go folks probably don't have much interest in or use for Windows (or resources to support a port) but honestly, in my mind that's just incompatible with the stated goal of being a "systems programming language".

[enneff]

There is a small group of dedicated programmers working on the Windows port, and it works. Not 100% parity with the other Operating Systems, but it passes most tests: http://godashboard.appspot.com/ (see the rightmost column)