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Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by jerf »

cameronbrown wrote: post #9
meddlepal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

> Google's developer marketing Pretty sure Go was a huge 'failure' for a long time (in terms of marketshare)

The bar for a new language has become sky high. It takes years and years to even start to become a contender.

I observe this without celebration. It simply is.

Even Google's other languages, some of which have been around just as long, aren't even doing as well as Go.

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by jayd16 »

Thaxll wrote: post #6
meddlepal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

Where exactly Google marketed the language, please gave us any example.

They talk about it at Google IO, for example.

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by Vanclief »

meddlepal wrote: post #5
arcticbull wrote: post #2

Step 1: be rob pike. Step 2: invent a pretty basic programming language using your old compiler from Plan 9 while at google. Step 3: be rob pike. ^_^

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

Or maybe because it is a useful and productive language?

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by geodel »

meddlepal wrote: post #5
arcticbull wrote: post #2

Step 1: be rob pike. Step 2: invent a pretty basic programming language using your old compiler from Plan 9 while at google. Step 3: be rob pike. ^_^

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

> Google's developer marketing

Like Google did marketing for Dart and it picked up?

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by Insanity »

meddlepal wrote: post #5
arcticbull wrote: post #2

Step 1: be rob pike. Step 2: invent a pretty basic programming language using your old compiler from Plan 9 while at google. Step 3: be rob pike. ^_^

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

Go is by far my favourite language to develop with. After having done Java, C#, C/C++ and python.

I still love functional languages more but for using something in the 'industry', I wouldn't want to use something else anymore.

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by pjmlp »

root_axis wrote: post #17
arcticbull wrote: post #2

Step 1: be rob pike. Step 2: invent a pretty basic programming language using your old compiler from Plan 9 while at google. Step 3: be rob pike. ^_^

What qualifies a language as "pretty basic" and why is that a bad or a good thing?

Being basically a copy of Limbo with Oberon-2 method syntax, although we are a bit further than 1992, to start with.

And while at it, offering less features as Algol used to have.

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by pjmlp »

geodel wrote: post #15
meddlepal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was: 1. The pedigree of the creators 2. Google's developer marketing And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.

> Google's developer marketing Like Google did marketing for Dart and it picked up?

Dart lost the support from Chrome team, it was rescued by AdWords team and Flutter is trying to make it relevant, but given Android team answers, it is clear that a power struggle is going on across teams.

Giliad is also a personality from language research hardly known by UNIX fans.

Re: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

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Post by lugg »

pjmlp wrote: post #18
root_axis wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What qualifies a language as "pretty basic" and why is that a bad or a good thing?

Being basically a copy of Limbo with Oberon-2 method syntax, although we are a bit further than 1992, to start with. And while at it, offering less features as Algol used to have.

I'd love to see algol come back with a fresh syntax.
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