This is unfair, I think. Go offers strong guarantees that C does not. It has fewer sharp edges than C; it also asserts a principle of not polishing away sharp

This is unfair, I think. Go offers strong guarantees that C does not. It has fewer sharp edges than C; it also asserts a principle of not polishing away sharp edges with concurrency. You don't have to do everything better than C to be a huge improvement over C.