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I think you're looking at the wrong end of the timeline. The people who built it had already built UNIX and C (and one of them would later write Limbo). Go's in
by TallGuyShort 4y ago
I think you're looking at the wrong end of the timeline. The people who built it had already built UNIX and C (and one of them would later write Limbo). Go's initial splash in the "press" was helped massively by that pedigree.
- Bayart 4y agoI do have distinct memories of Go's initial hype being « Ken Thompson and Rob Pike did this ».
- xani_ 4y agoI meant that if same people went to work to some small unknown company nobody would care as none of their software would have a pull of something pushed by Google
- TallGuyShort 4y agoI know that's what you meant and you absolutely have it backwards. These are the people who built some of the most iconic technology BEFORE building Plan 9. Are you seriously not familiar with their work on UNIX and C at Bell Labs? Because all of them were legends long before going to Google. Them going to Google was a big deal because of who they already were, not Google. If you're not old enough to remember their ideas being a big deal before they joined Google you need to go do some reading because you're lacking pretty real historical context.