I don't think the tool to automagically convert C code to Go will work. At the very least it will take much longer than expected to get it right. And when it's finally ready, he resulting Go code will be very slow, so they won't be able to use it without serious manual modification. Meanwhile, the C compiler will continue to add new features, and each one will have to be converted to Go and then refactored for performance. It won't work.