Comment by pjmlp

I dislike Go's minimalism, however it fits something I have been saying for years.

Many languages that predated Java and C#, already had everything that Go offers and then some.

Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Eiffel.

Had Java and C#, just like those, had full support for AOT compilation, value types and the same low level programming capabilities, and many stuff that was still written during 2000-2010 in C or C++ would not have happened, and maybe C++11 would not have been as relevant as it was.

During that decade many people kept writing C or C++, because they lacked mainstream alternatives for AOT compiled languages, and not because they were into low level systems programming.