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It depends on your threat model. Mine includes the compiler vendors abandoning the project and me needing to make my own implementation. Obviously unlikely, and someone else would likely step in for all the major languages, but I'm not convinced Go adds enough over C to give away that control.

As long as I have a stack of esp32s and a working C compiler, no one can take away my ability to make useful programs, including maintaining the compiler itself.

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For embedded that probably works. For large C programs you're going to be just as stuck as you are with Go.

I think relatively few programs need to be large. Most complexity in software today comes from scale, which usually results in an inferior UX. Take Google drive for example. Very complicated to build a system like that, but most people would be better served by a WebDAV server hosted by a local company. You'd get way better latency and file transfer speeds, and the company could use off the shelf OSS, or write their own.