Oddly enough, I know several people who are giving up 30 years of C and Fortran programming to use Go because they find its features sufficiently compelling--an

Oddly enough, I know several people who are giving up 30 years of C and Fortran programming to use Go because they find its features sufficiently compelling--and they're changing minds throughout the organization. For about two years, many of the people I work with have been using Go almost exclusively because, while simple and fast like C, the things it adds are so useful we can't imagine trying to hack similar functionality together with C libraries. Things like built-in maps, slices, multiple returns, lambda functions, channels, goroutines... these are all things you can accomplish in C, but it's so much more painful (see: homebrewed hashtables, do-it-yourself pointer management on a big array, returning structs, function pointers, some sort of mutex abomination to replicate channels, pthreads)