On: Go and Simplicity Debt Redux

[wtetzner]

> So building production software is stated as 3rd most important goal.

Nowhere in that sentence do they claim the list is ordered by importance.

> Go was designed for writing production software that needs to be reliable.

That might be true, but it doesn't actually say anything about how successful they were in reaching that goal.

[geodel → wtetzner]

> but it doesn't actually say anything about how successful they were in reaching that goal.

How would measure that? To me it is simple: lots of cloud related infrastructure is written in that. So it seems successful.

[wtetzner → geodel]

Well, all that really says is that the marketing for Go was successful, and that Go is sufficient to build said infrastructure (just as the languages preceding Go were).