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Go is inspired by the C++ subset that Google choose to use (Just look for the Google's C++ style guide to look for things that Google banned). So in many ways, it's chosen to work as C++ in lots of corner cases.

In fact, that enabled automatic tool to convert Go compiler written in Google's C++ to Go.

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> In fact, that enabled automatic tool to convert Go compiler written in Google's C++ to Go.

Hmm, I thought go was written in C at first place and not C++. It seems to me that Go creators were never big fan of C++ so I don't think it takes any inspiration from C++ .

All I see in some kind of C + garbage collection + interfaces and some concurrency percs. I fail to see how it was influenced by C++ in any ways.

That's correct, the Go toolchain was originally written in C, and translated from C to Go:

https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c

And of course Go's designers include some of the designers of C (well, its predecessor B) and Limbo, and Go seems influenced more by that tradition than by C++.

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