Rob Pike wrote a post about the curious phenomena of most Go coming from high-level languages and not from C++: http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-i

Rob Pike wrote a post about the curious phenomena of most Go coming from high-level languages and not from C++: http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponential... Apparently the remaining C++ users are really fixated on something called zero cost abstractions, and it's not a goal of Go: "Zero cost isn't a goal, at least not zero CPU cost. Go's claim is that minimizing programmer effort is a more important consideration." (though I don't think C++ succeeds in "zero cost abstractions")