> Go was never meant to be a low-level language. I didn't make this claim.¹ With that being said, high(er)-levels languages can be used for OS development and

> Go was never meant to be a low-level language. I didn't make this claim.¹ With that being said, high(er)-levels languages can be used for OS development and the like. There's considerable work in providing the underpinnings necessary for the abstractions, but it's doable and has been done. There are plenty of archived discussions from the nascent-Go days on this topic. Using Go in the places C is used was discussed and, given that a directory named "freestanding" exists in the source tree from that time, I'm inclined to believe it was seriously considered. [1] Also, FWIW, C is not a low-level language. As with any other systems language, a generous amount of work has to be done in order to make its abstractions map to the computer architecture. A macro assembler is a low-level language.