See, I just don't agree with you that the difficulty of learning is indicative of the relative value of the two languages. Yes, C++ is very difficult to learn a

See, I just don't agree with you that the difficulty of learning is indicative of the relative value of the two languages. Yes, C++ is very difficult to learn and I'm sure Go is less so (I have a hard time imagining a language more complex than C++). At the same time, I'm not yet convinced that Go is unequivocally better than C++ at the problems C++ solve. The decade it takes to learn C++ doesn't tell you anything about the value of C++, only that it is more complex. The question is why that is. The backwards compatibility with C is often cited as a prime reason for the inherent complexity of C++, yet that is the very thing that makes C++ "better" for many people.