As a Common Lisper (among others) interested in language design, I've just started reading up on Go, after I've been told it's "simple, robust, safe, well-designed".

Purely subjectively, alot of what I'm seeing in Go so far looks to me like a "2nd system design" for C programmers. I'm hoping that the concurrency model is where it shines through with some good new ideas and implementations because I've been relatively unimpressed with the rest of it so far. That's not to say it's bad per se, but I've seen nothing in it that makes it stand out from other languages design-wise, and it feels rather warty to me so far...

Purely my own subjective opinion.