Yes, for better or for worse, I think the ethos of Go is pretty much "a mulligan on C". Every C project re-implements a bespoke hash table, struggles with Unic

Yes, for better or for worse, I think the ethos of Go is pretty much "a mulligan on C". Every C project re-implements a bespoke hash table, struggles with Unicode strings, spends a lot of time on memory management, gets tripped up on dynamic linking, and so on. If otherwise like C but are tired of those things, guess which language is perfect for you?