I have so much to agree. There is a reason, why still a lot of software is implemented in C. There are historic reasons of course, but also, because C is just p

I have so much to agree. There is a reason, why still a lot of software is implemented in C. There are historic reasons of course, but also, because C is just powerful enough to do so, and that gives you a small language, which removes a lot of complexity. Of course, in the case of C, this comes along with the warts of lacking memory safety and limited type safety, which are responsible for a lot of bugs. Other languages like Pascal and Modula-2 did improve a lot in these respects. Yet, all of those languages remain simple. That is the reason, I like Go so much. It is still a very simple language, but improves in the key parts of memory safety, having a GC, better type checking, and a few high level constructs, most of all having first class functions and closures. These enable many of the features of "higher" programming languages. You can do mapping functions over lists in Go quite fine.