C++ is horrible in many ways, but Go never really tried hard to replace it (although it claimed to do that in the beginning, before it was refocused as a langua

C++ is horrible in many ways, but Go never really tried hard to replace it (although it claimed to do that in the beginning, before it was refocused as a language for backend and tools). The are many reasons for that, but most importantly, Go doesn't support deterministic memory management (like C++, Rust and Swift) and opts for GC instead, which makes life easier for at least 95% of its use cases, but not for some of the use cases C++ used to shine on. I think that the Plan 9 Googlers dislike of C++ (and in truth, Modern C and UNIX as well) is closer to be the real reason for creating Go. It really was never designed to be a proper system language.