> Go fixes C's well-understood flaws (declaration resembling use

This seems to be a common belief, but since Go kept pointer syntax as prefix, you're still stuck needing parens in some unfortunate cases:

https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax (see the part about pointers near the bottom)

As Rob Pike writes in that link, they could've fixed it and still had declaration resembling use if they had chosen a suffix operator for pointers. He notes that Pascal uses ^, but it seems like @ might be a better choice:

    int foo         // an integer
    int foo@        // pointer to int
    int foo[10]@    // 10 pointers
    int foo@[10]    // pointer to array
    int foo()[10]@  // function that returns an array of 10 pointers

In my opinion, they almost fixed it and then punted. As such, it's just different, but not really better.