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> The syntax of go feels a little "expert", while the syntax of C seems more friendly and easy to grasp. I doubt anything will replace C if it's not as easy and simple.

I think C is a lot harder to grasp. e.g. manual memory management, dangling pointers, unchecked casts, etc.

> One thing that could improve on C, might be very simple things like (immutable?) string as a native type, hashmaps, lambdas, etc. I would love to see some pythonic stuff into C.

Have you used Go? It has all of those things...