New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Go(lang) Is the New Basic?

Ask HN: Go(lang) Is the New Basic?
3 by martinbaun | 2 comments on Hacker News.
With "the new Basic" I mean the good parts. Basic focused on the essential, no weird crazy language features that would take you 10 years to master - C++ I am looking at you. Go focuses on the basics (pun intended); thus, you can focus more on getting stuff done than fancy abstractions and language features. Of course, Go has more features, but they seem to be baked in well and important. What do you think of this observation?