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by Jtsummers 141 days ago
The Go creators declared it a systems language and it's stuck around for some reason.

Their definition was not the one most people would have used (leading to C, C++, Rust, Ada, etc. as you listed) but systems as in server systems, distributed services, etc. That is, it's a networked systems language not a low-level systems language.