Comment by shrubble

Kind of, Limbo, written for Inferno, taking into consideration what made Alef's design for Plan 9 a failure, like not having garbage collection.

Yes, Golang is superficially almost identical to Pike's Newsqueak.

not that I recall but I may not be recalling correctly.

But certainly, anyone will bring their previous experience to the project, so there must be some Plan9 influence in there somewhere