I had to do a double-take; Rust, one of the languages leading the mainstream away from nullables, was created by Graydon Hoare (I looked it up and there's no re

I had to do a double-take; Rust, one of the languages leading the mainstream away from nullables, was created by Graydon Hoare (I looked it up and there's no relation to Tony) But yeah: I once heard Go described as "a C fan-fiction". It was designed by and for people who use and like C, and just wanted some niceties built on top of it for their usecase of writing distributed systems (garbage collection, strings, easy networking and multithreading, easy cross-platform builds, very basic polymorphism). It was not designed by people who were interested in stepping back and re-evaluating the big picture beyond those practical necessities I see it as C++ (literally, "C improved"), for the modern world (instead of the 80s). For all the good and bad that implies.