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by vp8989 1766 days ago
"The Go team originally wanted to replace C++, especially inside Google"

Im glad you said that and I was not just imagining that myself. I remember following the Go language closely in its earlier days and it was often spoken about as a "systems language" but it actually seems to have ended up settling as a language to write servers for people who are sick of OOP but still like their imperative C style code.