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A non-crappy language to build internal systems? There's a strong culture of NIH at Google, so I doubt there is any sneaky hidden strategy in their opening Go:
by forgotusername 15y ago
A non-crappy language to build internal systems? There's a strong culture of NIH at Google, so I doubt there is any sneaky hidden strategy in their opening Go: they get widespread peer review and the chance to prime candidates on the language before they ever reach the hiring process. I guess even that is justification enough.
- shuzchen 15y agoI have a hard time attributing a new language coming out of Google as NIH syndrome. If you take a look at some of the people employed at the big G (Gosling, Kernighan, Pike, Guido, Thompson, etc.) who were responsible for creating and nurturing some very big languages being used today, I would be surprised if new languages weren't being created.