Go's good parts are basically the parts inherited from Bell Labs - the channels are an echo of Plan9's 9p protocol being used everywhere, and the style syntacti

Go's good parts are basically the parts inherited from Bell Labs - the channels are an echo of Plan9's 9p protocol being used everywhere, and the style syntactically and in metaprogramming capability remains close to C, but with refinements like using Unicode. Which adds up to it being a decent language for making networked software and small "one-thing-well" utilities. If it were actually used in production on Plan9, a lot of the idioms would become that much more powerful, as more of the interfacing glue could be handled by the shell and 9p namespaces, but as it is, it gets bogged down by compatibility issues.