Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson are objectively smart men and pioneers and have learned from lots of mistakes both they and the industry made.
Go embodied a lot of those learnings out of the gate.
If the bar is to be perfect out of the gate that’s impossible and I can’t think of any language that could pretend to be so.
Go was very good out of the gate and has slowly but surely evolved to be great.
Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson are objectively smart men and pioneers and have learned from lots of mistakes both they and the industry made.
Go embodied a lot of those learnings out of the gate.
If the bar is to be perfect out of the gate that’s impossible and I can’t think of any language that could pretend to be so.
Go was very good out of the gate and has slowly but surely evolved to be great.