Go and C have partially shared origins. Two of the three creators of Go (Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) were involved in the early days of C. Ken Thompson is even t

Go and C have partially shared origins. Two of the three creators of Go (Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) were involved in the early days of C. Ken Thompson is even the creator of B, the predecessor of C. There are obvious huge differences between the language but in a more subtle way they're actually quite similar: C is an "unergonomically simplistic language", just as the parent commenter describes Go.