I pretty much thought the same thing. Then I came to the conclusion that if it succeeds in its performance goals (10-20% slower than C), it has a good chance of being the language of choice for those hackers that now use C for everything, even when using C means that some memory leak or buffer overflow is likely to going to cause a security flaw in the future. If things like web- and mail servers were implemented in a Go instead of C, many security related bugs in those applications might go away.