What he was saying from the previous bit is that they wanted their new language we now know as Go to be familiar to those who have learned Java, C, C++, etc.
This is opposed to it being derived from, say, Haskell, that, while brilliant, few have familiarity with.
It’s not ironic that Go is similar Java, especially in its earlier days. Those similarities are stated as an intent of Go’s design.
What he was saying from the previous bit is that they wanted their new language we now know as Go to be familiar to those who have learned Java, C, C++, etc.
This is opposed to it being derived from, say, Haskell, that, while brilliant, few have familiarity with.
It’s not ironic that Go is similar Java, especially in its earlier days. Those similarities are stated as an intent of Go’s design.