D? Hadn't it boast itself as a C++ replacement(which pissed off the C++ community=bad rap), I think it would have been a very good candidate. D minus all the u

D? Hadn't it boast itself as a C++ replacement(which pissed off the C++ community=bad rap), I think it would have been a very good candidate. D minus all the unsafe features looks better than Go, IMHO. Go lack of expressiveness forces developers into copy/paste mode.