The purpose of Go isn't to replace C at what C does best, like being wicked fast and having very direct access to the hardware. It's meant to replace programs t

The purpose of Go isn't to replace C at what C does best, like being wicked fast and having very direct access to the hardware. It's meant to replace programs that Google used to write in C++, like web servers, data aggregators, etc. Go was designed by Googlers for Googlers, and that's very obvious from both the design and standard libraries.