C... boring? I don't think so. Not with 200+ undefined or implementation defined behaviors. Not when even something as simple as "a = b + c" can evoke nasal demons.

C is so loosely defined that it keeps you on your toes constantly. Every single line is like walking down a dark corridor with poisonous snakes... and your torch just guttered out.

There's nothing boring about C. It's pure thrill and danger. If you're not experiencing that, you're probably writing terribly non-portable, brittle code, ready to unexpectedly invoke undefined or implementation defined behavior.

Second, C is _far_ from boring. It's boring now because we all live in its shadow, but the idea that we should have high-level languages for writing low-level software in? That's C, right there.

Lots of other languages that now seem boring were interesting to start (Java, Perl, ...). What's frustrating about Go, and the hype it gets, is that it isn't interesting in any of those ways, and yet so many people, including its designers, seem to think it's revolutionary.