When it comes to simplicity, Go is definitely quite similar to C in many respects (and not all of them good). After I started working with Rust for a little bit

When it comes to simplicity, Go is definitely quite similar to C in many respects (and not all of them good). After I started working with Rust for a little bit, I think it better matches the feeling I get with C when it comes to being confident what your code will do when compiled. To be fair, there is still a fair amount of magic you have to get used to. But the main issues that I've had with Go is when the Go runtime is causing your code to very much not act like a C program. To be fair, I work on container runtimes and similarly "lower level" tooling so this is probably not an experience that everyone else has.