> But Go, D, Julia etc. only repackaged existing knowledge... Sure but you could also say that Google (the search engine) only repackages existing knowledge. N

> But Go, D, Julia etc. only repackaged existing knowledge... Sure but you could also say that Google (the search engine) only repackages existing knowledge. Not much different from that famous HN comment [1] which says yould could use FTP & CVS instead of dropbox. If we take Go as an example, sure code style guidelines were old news when Go came out, yet gofmt is still considered one of the best features of the language, because it removes bikeshedding and dictates the one true standard. In other words, like in cooking, it's not so much about the ingredients but how you package them. -- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224