alt Hacker NewsYeah but they were intentionally trying to build a better C++/Java, not a better C. It wasn't even aimed at things that C is good at. It was mostly aimed at writing high performance servers that have to scale really big not only in terms of performance but software complexity, size and contributions. So Go is a better C++ or Java for writing servers according to its creators.
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> Yeah but they were so that intentionally trying to build a better C++/Java
They were trying to build a faster Python, thinking that would appeal to C++ developers. The theory was that developers were using C++ at Google because they had to, not because they wanted to, and would choose something like Python instead if it were up to the performance task. Although it turned out in the end that C++ developers actually wanted to use C++.
A better C++ is by definition a better C, no one should be using C in 21st century beyond UNIX clones, and embedded devs that are religiously against C++, even all modern C compilers are written in C++ nowadays.
Anything you can think C is better, it isn't ISO C, rather non standard C compiler specific extensions, which can language can also be.
Just do like in K&R C days, use Assembly for what language isn't directly capable of, and it is right there as part of a regular Go toolchain installation.