As pjmlp said, Go was a partial clone of Oberon-2 per Pike. Modified to suite modern requirements and whatever other designers put in. Oberon's were used in numerous operating systems. Latest was A2 Bluebottle which seemed faster than my Linux desktop despite being a GC language and running in full virtualization on Linux. The original language in that family, Modula-2, was even hosted on a PDP-11 like C.
Therefore Go is closer to that space than people want to admit. A change of its runtime or compiler would let it do operating systems. Even Java (JX) and Haskell (House) do operating systems. I'm sure one could that is derived from and similar to a language designed for implementing OS's. :)
Therefore Go is closer to that space than people want to admit. A change of its runtime or compiler would let it do operating systems. Even Java (JX) and Haskell (House) do operating systems. I'm sure one could that is derived from and similar to a language designed for implementing OS's. :)