C++ was intended to replace C, so it's intended to replace both.

cmccabe · on Oct 1, 2012

Let's not judge the intentions of the Golang authors by what the intentions of the C++ authors were.

Golang is a higher level language than C. It will not be suitable for non-GC'ed environments, and the Golang authors are perfectly well aware of that. It's ok to make a language that solves many problems really well, without trying to solve every problem in the world in one bloated language.