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C is a simple language and yet it constitutes the guts of most computers on this planet and Mars. Simple works. Go is really close to C. In fact, Rob Pike's Go

C is a simple language and yet it constitutes the guts of most computers on this planet and Mars. Simple works. Go is really close to C. In fact, Rob Pike's Go CLI programs on his Github looks pretty much like a standard C program using getopt. Interfaces are just a nicer virtual function table. interface{} is just void *. In that sense, it's already treading ground that is proven to work. Go didn't have to do anything revolutionary because C was already great. I hope the Go team will continue to embody what made C great so the next generation can receive the lessons its taught us.

pjmlp 7y ago
Thanks to UNIX adoption. C is the JavaScript of systems programming. Had it not been for UNIX workstations and universities adopting it, we would probably using BLISS, PL/I or something else instead and not bleeding billions of dollars per year fixing security exploits.
- sacado2 7y ago
  Maybe we would be using oberon. But then, go owes as much to oberon as it owes to C.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Oberon was good for its time back in early 90's, too little for modern computing. We would be better served with Modula-3 or Active Oberon, which Go failed to learn from.
hu3 7y ago
If someone told me last year that Uber had 1500 microservices written in a language that shares C's simplicity and some of its shortcommings I'd laugh it off. Same for companies like MasterCard, American Express, Salesforce, Target, Twitch, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox and Cloudflare.