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So for some context here, the work on the Go garbage collector was done by experts, for example: Rick Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hudson-3333918

So for some context here, the work on the Go garbage collector was done by experts, for example: Rick Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hudson-33339185/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hudson-33339185/). These guys knew the state of the art, and made the decision they thought was best for Go. This is an incredibly technical area of discourse, and sadly, hacker news probably isn't going to be the place to see it happen. But the whole idea that Go is made of a bunch of strongly-opinionated, insular developers who have no idea what they're doing is hogwash, especially in this area. Go had a sub-par garbage collector and Google put together serious resources to fix it.

pcwalton 8y ago
Note that I've never said that Go developers don't have any idea what they're doing. Very smart, competent people can be wrong. I know I'm wrong a lot! For what it's worth, I've also heard that Go is considering moving to a generational GC, in spite of Ian's initial arguments against it. Hopefully they do.
- weberc2 8y ago
  Presumably after being in production for years, the very smart, competent developers would admit their error (if indeed they should have used a generational GC), right? Hubris? I'm trying to square these remarks with your cut-and-dry portrayal of the issue.