On: Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of So...

[pjmlp]

Because everyone else doesn't want to throw away the last 20 years of language design.

Go's search for simplicity is seen as a solution looking for a problem in the language design communities.

[danieldk → pjmlp]

Go's search for simplicity is seen as a solution looking for a problem in the language design communities.

But most programmers are not in language design communities. There is a big potential for a 'safer C' or a 'faster Python'. Yes, that's a simplification, but also how people will see Go.

[pjmlp → danieldk]

> 'faster Python'

Why throw away Python's capabilities to execute it faster? Just make use of PyPy.

[Symmetry → pjmlp]

PyPy is geometrically about halfway between CPython and Go, performance-wise.

[pjmlp → Symmetry]

For the type of applications Google is showing off with Go, I doubt it matters.