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>The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe
by hnaccy 7y ago
>The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.
- parhamn 7y agoThe average skill of most software teams is probably not far if not lower. I've been on very good ones and very bad ones -- lots of the code becomes least-common-denominator/weakest-link quality.
- skybrian 7y agoThis isn't about good and bad, it's about experienced versus beginner, for certain values of "beginner". Not complete novices, but people who have already been programming in some other languages, but are new to Go. Think new college grads.
- Avshalom 7y agoGoogle: we hire morons!