Linus gives his opinion on Go later the referenced thread:

http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...

> Hey, I think Go picked a few good and important things to look at, but I think they called it "experimental" for a reason. I think it looks like they made a lot of reasonable choices.

> But introducing a new language? It's hard. Give it a couple of decades, and see where it is then.

Or D.

I had thought D was designed to be, among other things, a reasonable next-generation replacement for projects that would otherwise use something like C.

Yep. I'm actually contributing a bit to an exokernel written in it.