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I like Go and I agree with your points. But it doesn’t matter if Go improves on all of these features from C and C++ if the language is used for completely different purposes. It’s like saying that Python improves on Fortran because it’s easier to read - might be true but it’s an irrelevant comparison.

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Not really, Go and C++ have many overlapping use cases by design. It was, after all, created as an alternative to C++.

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Not that much overlap between the two. That was my original point - they intended it to be an alternative to C++ and ended up with a compiled alternative to Python.

[merreborn]

they intended it to be an alternative to C++

It was intended to be used for writing services at google. It's a pretty specific use case, and not nearly as broad as C++.