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Agree to disagree here :)

Not every program is a basic CLI app with 3 network requests, and the only tool we have against complexity is abstractions.

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Most of the stuff we use is written in C. Which is even smaller than Go.

You don't need complex langs to write software.

Uh, C is not really small nowadays. ISO C specification is about 200 pages long even without all the library. (It's hard to compare directly, but Go is probably around 50~100 pages long when formatted similarly.) C could have been small enough, but ISO C is not.

Also, most of what? Besides OSs, tiny tools, DBs and embedded, C is not used all that much. Where truly high performance is required, the de facto language of choice is C++ (see e.g. browsers) and business applications (which are the most numerous) are definitely not written in C in most cases.

Most of the stuff we use was written in C89 and even older versions :)

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