He did, but much more importantly Cavanaugh said that he chose Go because of it having similar semantics and code structure. In other words, idiomatic Go is similar to how the original code was written. While I am sure Hejlsberg's input was icing on the cake, it was the not the ultimate determinator. C# having the best compiler in the world on every front still wouldn't have ticked the boxes the guy in charge needed to tick.

> So I don't think he would agree with you that this was his reasoning for using go

He may not, but it also wasn't his choice in the end anyway, so its a bit strange that you are leaning on his word.