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For any given tool you're going to spend most of your career at the top of its learning curve, so it doesn't make sense to weaken the tool to optimize for the b

For any given tool you're going to spend most of your career at the top of its learning curve, so it doesn't make sense to weaken the tool to optimize for the brief period when you weren't.

firethief 7y ago
As a developer I agree with you, but I think if I were a FAANG I'd be thinking: developers are crazy expensive, how can I commodify them? Every C++ developer is unique. There's endless variety of language subsets and build situations. It takes enormous investment to bring someone up to speed on a project, and only mandating a heavily-restricted subset of the language can make teaching it to fresh college grads practical. These are exactly the things Go is designed to avoid.