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Those properties are not mutually exclusive.

• seabee 12y ago
  C++ is the counterexample in nearly all such cases, for better or worse!
• rakoo 12y ago
  The important distinction here is that go creators never set "system programming" as a goal, contrary to what OP implied in the blog post. Now, whether go turns out to be good at that task is another story
  • andralex 12y ago
    Go has been announced as a systems programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s. After some backlash the slogan has been changed quietly.