Comment by _vya7

My "aha" moment when trying to understand channels in Go was when I realized that everything about how this feature is designed comes from their answer to the question "how could we 'fix' select() in C?". In fact, pretty much every feature in Go is designed to fix some perceived flaw in C, and that's the entire philosophy behind Go. They aren't interested in language theory, or in innovating or solving problems outside of C. They were just trying to write C 2.0. Not that that's a problem, it's just, it threw me off. When it came out, I fully expected Go to be a new competitor to Java or even Python, not to C.