If you watch the "Meet the Go team" talk from Google IO, they explicitly mention that almost nothing in Go is particularly new, and most of its ideas have been

If you watch the "Meet the Go team" talk from Google IO, they explicitly mention that almost nothing in Go is particularly new, and most of its ideas have been around for decades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk What makes Go great is not the individual features, but the selection of the features and how well they work together, and also the "features" that were excluded from the language.