There's no way that Go can follow in C's footsteps.
I am not a big fan of Go, but looking at Oberon based OSs used during the 90's at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, it could be used.
Granted, maybe some extra features like direct compiler support for untraced pointers and full processor mapping in the unsafe package would be welcome, but the original Oberon could survive without them. By making a set of assembly routines available as kernel package.
Which is no different than the assembly required by C to interact with the hardware.
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I am not a big fan of Go, but looking at Oberon based OSs used during the 90's at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, it could be used.
Granted, maybe some extra features like direct compiler support for untraced pointers and full processor mapping in the unsafe package would be welcome, but the original Oberon could survive without them. By making a set of assembly routines available as kernel package.
Which is no different than the assembly required by C to interact with the hardware.