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> I'm working on a PhD in CS with a specialization in programming languages. Google came to do a PhD recruitment day and essentially asked "so what kind of PhD

• 762236 11y ago
  Is it me, or is there quite a delta between theoretical language specialists, and engineers that work with languages day to day (and thus who use it as a form of socialization with their peers, with all of the cognitive/psychological/epistemological fallout of this). Go-lang comes from people with experience developing systems in collaborative teams.
  • Avshalom 11y ago
    Go also comes from people who have been comfortably ensconced in research labs for their entire lives... which --if you've ever had to deal with the "completely reasonable" jury rigging found in every research lab ever-- explains a lot about why the authors think it's reasonable to expect the every user to re-write the same boiler plate crap until the end of time rather than just bite the bullet and write a more complicated compiler/OS/program.
    • throwaway999888 11y ago
      There's not much difference between an academic language designer being a sourpuss that his ideas/language is not appreciated outside of his circle, and Rob Pike being a sourpuss that "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant"[1]. When you think about it. [1] http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf