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Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
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#12Thanks for working to create such a great language!
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#13Since rsc frequents HN: I’d like to thank you for all the work you’ve put into this great language. Peak HN hype cycle I decided to pick up Go and never regretted it. Thank you.
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#14Thank you, rsc, for all your work. Development in Go has become much more enjoyable in these 12 years: race detector, standardized error wrapping, modules, generics, toolchain updates, and so on. And while there are still things to be desired (sum types, better enum/range types, immutability, and non-nilness in my personal wishlist), Go is still the most enjoyable ecosystem I've ever developed in.
Well written list of what made Go better language during last years. I'd add iterators, the recent big thing from Russ.
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#15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoWei-GAPo — Project has come a long way since this. Happy that it's still around and thriving. I don't think we expected that in 2009. I don't believe Go would have been where it is without Russ. His contribution to the project has been tremendous.
Thanks Russ.
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#16Thanks Russ for your great leadership and contributions to the Go community. I’ve always enjoy your talks, blogs, and your many contributions to the language. Looking forward to your future contributions to the language and ecosystem.
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#17Huge news! I hope the new leadership remembers that keeping golang small and simple was its greatest strength. Adding generics was too much, and while I think there are some important small cases when it's valuable, in practice people are using it when they shouldn't. I'd also like to see less google control of the project. I'm certainly thankful for golang as it made my https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ project po…
> I'd also like to see less google control of the project. That doesn't look like is going to happen — the leadership change announced here seems to me to continue on the Google path. Both Austin and Cherry are relatively unknown outside Google and are to my knowledge not active in the community outside Google.
> Both Austin and Cherry are relatively unknown outside Google and are to my knowledge not active in the community outside Google.
I don't believe this is true at all. They are both highly active in external Go development, far more active than I have been these past few years. (It's true that neither gives talks or blogs as much as I do.)
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#18RSC has a really good blog: https://research.swtch.com/
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#19IMHO Go has been one of the best-managed open source projects ever. Hats off to Google for supporting it.
What are some things that make it well managed?
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#20Thank you, rsc, for all your work. Development in Go has become much more enjoyable in these 12 years: race detector, standardized error wrapping, modules, generics, toolchain updates, and so on. And while there are still things to be desired (sum types, better enum/range types, immutability, and non-nilness in my personal wishlist), Go is still the most enjoyable ecosystem I've ever developed in.
Nomination for RSC's greatest technical contribution: module versioning. Absolutely fundamental to the language ecosystem.