Although no one seems to have this problem, golang (easier to google "golang" than "go") doesn't suffer from #ifndef guard problem which can make your large C++ app take hours to build http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide#18. I mean if it were written in go it wouldn't take hours to build, and it would be clear which includes you really need. But people with large C++ code bases are probably--hey they have plenty of time to port code to golang while their large source code compiles.