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Cool! A variant of C language, makefiles... Now all I need is a tower PC with Windows NT 4.0 on it and I'll be all set!

On another thought... no. I'll stick in 2017 with modern tools and languages.

However you feel about go, it's not really a variant of C. The syntax is a bit similar, but there are a lot of fundamental differences.

One could argue that Go is a direct descendent of C, similar to the relation between Oberon and Pascal.

This is a fair point. What I meant is that I think the usability niche for Go is similar to that of C. Is that a fair statement?

I was unfair to Go and this is because I seem to see many cases where Go is brought to where it does not fit.