There's nothing magical about a compiler. If the Go team decides to build a C compiler using Go that targets Go instead of machine code, they will. Worse case

There's nothing magical about a compiler. If the Go team decides to build a C compiler using Go that targets Go instead of machine code, they will. Worse case scenario the resulting code will be a GOTO littered state-machine with 'import "unsafe"' on every source file. Though I like to think the Go team would fare better then that.