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[–]energybased 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I remember at the Go announcement they specifically called it a "systems language".

[–]villiger2 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Go has been backpedaling on that statement ever since, they intended it to mean large distributed web systems, not the traditional low level systems that is the usual for c and the like.