While I'm a fan of Go, I don't see it as a low level language. I suppose in terms of language features you could argue that simple/small is low level, but from

While I'm a fan of Go, I don't see it as a low level language. I suppose in terms of language features you could argue that simple/small is low level, but from a machine point of view, I feel like anything that doesn't let you manage memory manually can't really be considered low level. I'd probably throw my vote at C for a low level language. Even if you never actually write anything in C, being able to understand the massive amount of code out there in C is a definite plus, and it gives you a good understanding of what's happening at the machine level and underneath the abstraction of other languages.