> Since Mr. Gerrand decided to take cheap shots at other languages I don't think I was taking any kind of "cheap shot." It is literally the origin story of Go.

> Since Mr. Gerrand decided to take cheap shots at other languages I don't think I was taking any kind of "cheap shot." It is literally the origin story of Go. Google has a few unreasonably large C++ projects and the incredible build infrastructure to make that possible. It was in part Rob's dissatisfaction with this state of affairs that triggered the first discussions of Go.