[Koshkin]

You can take K&R C from my cold, dead hands.

There was no header file hell. Often you didn't need a single header to be included in your code: most functions returned int (or nothing), and if you needed something that returned double, you could just say so.

I remember being excited about function prototypes, but something was irretrievably lost at that point. The primal elegance of C as it was conceived by its creators is long forgotten now.

(If you want, you can still experience it with the Tiny C Compiler that seems to continue to understand K&R C code just fine.)

[37ef_ced3]

I think you're trying to say you like C but dislike C++'s complexity.

You will enjoy Go.

Go can be understood as an improved, modernized C that doesn't abandon C's simplicity.

[the_duke]

The "Go is like C" comparison never made any sense to me.

Go has a sophisticated runtime with transparent N:M threading and built-in concurrency primitives, Interfaces, garbage collection and a large standard library.

Go is only simple when compared to the other languages that sit in a similar space, like Java and C#.

[pjmlp]

C's runtime is UNIX, that is why we got POSIX.

[throw_m239339]

> Go can be understood as an improved, modernized C that doesn't abandon C's simplicity.

This is false, because Go has a garbage collector by default. This isn't an "improvement" in anyway but for those who don't care about memory management and predictable and deterministic performances.