That's correct, the Go toolchain was originally written in C, and translated from C to Go: https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c And o

That's correct, the Go toolchain was originally written in C, and translated from C to Go: https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c And of course Go's designers include some of the designers of C (well, its predecessor B) and Limbo, and Go seems influenced more by that tradition than by C++.