"C++ gives you the power" exactly because there's full C underneath -- once you avoid "standard" containers, "OOP," "STL," "boost" and "best C++ practices" you can still malloc and place structs where you want. Sometimes you really need that level of control, and you get it from C. AFAIK, Google's Go simply just says "we don't give you that level of control." That's why C won't be fully replaced with Go. And that's also what "omg I need C++" people don't understand. I don't blame them for not knowing, they didn't have to work on such problems.

But I blame them when they insist that what they do is enough for everybody. It isn't.