Apparently the remaining C++ users are really fixated on something called zero cost abstractions, and it's not a goal of Go: "Zero cost isn't a goal, at least not zero CPU cost. Go's claim is that minimizing programmer effort is a more important consideration."
(though I don't think C++ succeeds in "zero cost abstractions")
http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
Apparently the remaining C++ users are really fixated on something called zero cost abstractions, and it's not a goal of Go: "Zero cost isn't a goal, at least not zero CPU cost. Go's claim is that minimizing programmer effort is a more important consideration."
(though I don't think C++ succeeds in "zero cost abstractions")