This seems like a case of premature optimization. C rocks at what it does. The billion other languages are pointing out and improving upon the stuff C does ba

This seems like a case of premature optimization. C rocks at what it does. The billion other languages are pointing out and improving upon the stuff C does badly, but they don't replace C (a language I've nearly forgotten, but respect). I RTFA (and its subpages) and didn't see anything mindblowing. The payoff of C->Go comes if you have 1M LOC of C. 900k LOC of Go is much better. For most of us, just-getting-it-to-run is awesome and that's why Ruby, Python, Lisp and Clojure dominate. The best part of the post is that (until later) I didn't know that the "ooh-wow" bits on http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c2go/ch04.html#_full_translation http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c2go/ch04.html#_f... were Go and were longer than their C equivalents. Sure, the C bits look scary to a noob; they look perfectly sane to a journeyman.