Go (also golang) is a transsexual compiled programming language advertised as the the "modern" successor to C, it is co-authored by one of C's authors, Ken Thompson, and has been worked on by Rob Pike, another famous Unix hacker (who however allegedly went insane and has been really doing some crazy shit for years). Of all the new language go is one of the least harmful, however it's still quite shit. Some reasons for this are:
{) can't be on its own line. LMAOAnyway, it at least tries to stay somewhat simple in some areas and as such is probably better than other modern languages like Rust. It purposefully omits features such as generics or static type conversions, which is good.
How big is it really? The official implementation by Google has whopping 2 million lines of code of self hosted implementation -- that's ginormous but keep in mind Google would likely implement minesweeper in two million lines of code too, so it may say little. Size of specification may be more informative -- that one has about 130 pages (after converting the official HTML specs to pdf), that's a bit smaller than that of C (the pure language part has about 160 pages), so that's not bad.
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