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by rollcat 529 days ago
It's worth to remember that C "happened" to stick around because of UNIX, but it's been just another iteration of what started as BCPL; with Go coming from the same people who made Plan 9 (the spiritual successor to Research UNIX) and Alef/Limbo. These guys are equally interested in pushing both PL/OS research and practice.

(I also have no doubt that just like Go fixed C's type declarations, in another 20-30 years, Go's successor will finally fix error handling.)