"C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To

"C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn't just about getting the job done, it's about doing it a certain way." Nobody can speak for all C++ programmers, but I think the biggest drawback of a transition from C++ to Go is a lack of abstraction power. Not having Generics/Exceptions/RAII is just painful.