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by 37ef_ced3 1372 days ago
You can think of Go as the modern representative the Plan 9 and Oberon schools of thought -- their answer to (and replacement for) C and C++.

The fact that it was developed at Google is incidental. That's where Robert Griesemer (Oberon) and Rob Pike (Plan 9) and Ken Thompson (Unix, Plan 9) and Russ Cox (Plan 9) and Ian Lance Taylor, etc., happened to be employed.