I was reading wiki article about "go" programming language, where Bruce Eckel states:

The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore --they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve.

Can go really replace C++(11) for new development in future? How about generic programming?

I don't know go , but the amount of time (in)wasted in learning C++ seems to go in vain.