I don't know. All I know is this [possibly dated] quote from Rob Pike: "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go progr

I don't know. All I know is this [possibly dated] quote from Rob Pike: "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++" Maybe Python and Ruby programmers are adopting Go to do system programming, but that isn't my impression.