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I have plenty of people I believe in. In the sense that almost whatever they say, I'd think really really hard before disagreeing. Even then, if I find them unc

by Peaker 12y ago

I have plenty of people I believe in. In the sense that almost whatever they say, I'd think really really hard before disagreeing. Even then, if I find them unconvincing, I'll eventually disagree. I personally don't hold Rob to be such a figure. I believe he's quite ignorant when it comes to many important topics in computer science (e.g: he made some comments that make it clear he does not understand parametric polymorphism). I find his work on Go to be a minor variant of Algol69 (and not necessarily an improvement, at that!), throwing away 40 years of real improvements in PLT.

yohanatan 12y ago
I'm not a fan of Go, its syntax, or Rob Pike in the slightest but aren't go-routines as first-class/ default at least an improvement over most Algol-derived languages' support for concurrent execution models? In the final analysis, this is hardly enough to convince me to use the language (as I've never found concurrency difficult in any other language to begin with and there are better ways than go-routines to make it 'easy'); however, I'm probably not in the target audience. My impression is that Pike is endeavoring to create for his new corporate overlords a language that fungible enterprise developers can be at home in. And, it probably is better than Java.