&gt; Heck, go is billed as a systems language and it&#x27;s GC&#x27;ed! That would be crazy 20 years ago.<p>When your allow the term to mean anything, it&#x27;s only natural that anything qualifies.<p>The computing world uses the term to describe things you build operating systems and kernels and hardware interfaces with.<p>Google redefined it to mean something you build web apps with ala NodeJS. By that definition, PHP is a systems language too.<p>Basically Go as a systems language is a false claim.