I saw Rob Pike give a version of this talk at the Australian Unix User Group conference in Melbourne, twenty years ago. It's quite fascinating to consider it in

I saw Rob Pike give a version of this talk at the Australian Unix User Group conference in Melbourne, twenty years ago. It's quite fascinating to consider it in terms of what has come in that time; obviously, Go, but his reflections on the monolithic nature of the environments we use (most notably web browsers) are fascinating to consider in 2022.