Comment by lobster_johnson

"Fix" in quotes, really -- I don't think the Go team ever pretended they were building a replacement, although they are certainly replacing C++ for their own work. That said, if you read Rob Pike's history of Go (previous link), they were mighty surprised to discover that Go didn't really entice C++ programmers at all; the crowd that Go appealed to were Ruby and Python developers who wanted a faster language that was still expressive and fast to compile.