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Go is C programming for the average Joe.

I kind of agree with you (being an 'average Joe'?), but surely Go offers some advantages over C even for a C programmer; faster to write and compile, more readable code, concurrency, memory safety.

Except those advantages were already possible back in 1978 with Modula-2, nothing new.

What's the Modula-2 equivalent of the goroutine concurrency primitive?

Co-routines, Modula-2 was one of the first languages to have native support for such constructs.

The only things that Go has over Modula-2 are interfaces, single declaration modules and GC.

Single declaration modules and GC were part of Modula-2 successor, Oberon in 1986, while Active Oberon in 2001 added Tasks and Interfaces to the Oberon language family.

All of these languages were used to built operating systems used for real work at Zurich's Technical University.

Yep, I miss me some M2. That's the most satisfying programming I've experienced so far.

If it helps bringing these advantages to modern day programmers then I'm all for it. A lot has been lost during the 90's with the rise of C++ and Java.

I agree, but I see Rust, D or even C# better suited for that purpose as Go, since it throws too much away.

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