No, it's (mostly) not about that. It's about C not having any generics or similar things (like C++ templates), so you need to fall back way more often on void*

No, it's (mostly) not about that. It's about C not having any generics or similar things (like C++ templates), so you need to fall back way more often on void*. So on that axis Go is roughly as statically typed as C, albeit more strongly typed. On the other hand C++ is more statically typed than C, but is about as strongly typed (afaik).