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• Avshalom 13y ago
  In addition to the fact that none of it's features are particularly novel lets remember that Go's founding ambition was "compile faster than C++"
  • jfb 13y ago
    And people disparage them for it, which is nuts. Google had a problem that they determined could best be solved by creating Go. So they did it, and presumably, they've solved their problem. That seems like a perfectly good use of incremental improvement. Which raises an interesting point: what to people on the outside looks like a paradoxical combination of insane hubris and deep technical conservatism is probably simply what to Google's eyes looks like steady-state, responsible technical problem-solving -- c.f., hhvm and Facebook for a similar approach.
  • lanna 13y ago
    > Go's founding ambition was "compile faster than C++" And Kotlin's is "compile faster than Scala"!