There has to be some irony there, given the development tendencies of golang. :)
Not to mention programming languages in general.
We're still wrapping our heads around decades-old ideas. We can be sure software development is finally a mature field when we're unflinchingly using 100+-year-old constructs because they've withstood the test of time.
One of my favorite fields, DSP, leans on math from around the turn of the 20th century. Far from shameful, I consider that a win for mathematics.
We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.