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Not much actually, the developers of Go mainly wanted shorter compile times than C++ offered.

thomasahle on Feb 11, 2017 [–]

Pretty sure different people wanted different things. Some people certainly wanted better concurrency.

AsyncAwait on Feb 11, 2017 | [–]

Sure, that too. Both of which however had little to do with Java.

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