Even though I am a C++ programmer at heart, Go fascinates me for none of the reasons you think. Go has made several interesting design decisions: It has virtually no Undefined Behavior1. It has very simple GC semantics that they’re mostly stuck with due to design decisions in the surface language. These things mean that despite Go having a GC, it’s possible to do manual memory management in pure Go and in cooperation with the GC (although without any help from the runtime package). To demo...