Go can become a systems programming language, even if the GC haters don't think so.
It has the same features as Oberon for systems, programming which was used to build quite a few Workstation OS at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), by Niklaus Wirth.
The only thing missing from Go versus what Oberon offered is register access on the unsafe package, but even then can be sorted out with an extension or a few calls into Assembly.
Oberon-07, which is even more minimalist that either Go or the original Oberon is sold by Astrobe for bare metal programming on cortex M boards.
It has the same features as Oberon for systems, programming which was used to build quite a few Workstation OS at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), by Niklaus Wirth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
You can read the source code here in the 2013 revised edition of the 1992 book.
http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
The only thing missing from Go versus what Oberon offered is register access on the unsafe package, but even then can be sorted out with an extension or a few calls into Assembly.
Oberon-07, which is even more minimalist that either Go or the original Oberon is sold by Astrobe for bare metal programming on cortex M boards.
http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm
Go is already bootstraped into itself, so the writing compilers is taken care of.
It is used by Docker and Kubernetes for managing containers.
It just needs someone writing an OS with Go for its Master or PhD thesis, or even just port Oberon source code, which is freely available into Go.
http://wiki.osdev.org/Go_Bare_Bones