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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.

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.

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