Except, it still is advertised as one (or at least implied to be): "Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind." http://gol

Except, it still is advertised as one (or at least implied to be): "Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind." http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction You could nit-pick and say that it says "in mind", but the point still stands that they're trying to imply that it's suitable for systems programming. It is not; certainly not at the level of an operating system kernel, etc.