>You have heard of C? I'm an experienced C developer. >which keeps a lot of virtues of C No, C doesn't have many virtues. It's major virtue was getting close

>You have heard of C? I'm an experienced C developer. >which keeps a lot of virtues of C No, C doesn't have many virtues. It's major virtue was getting close to being a macro assembler, and Go removes that completely. Go tries to be a higher-level-than-C language with good execution speed, but that goal was already achieved perfectly by Object Pascal, D, Ada, and Common Lisp.