[enneff]

It was more expedient to start with the Plan 9 tool chain that we had at the time. Ken was already familiar with the code base, which was small and compiled quickly (a few seconds). Because of this we got a lot done quickly, knowing that we would eventually modernize the compiler.

[thomasahle]

How much is Ken involved in the language today?

[bradfitz]

Ken is not really involved in the project these days. His last commit was in 2011, before Go 1 was even released.

[nathany]

(afaik) He retired around the Go 1.0 release, though he showed up as unixken on reddit during a Go Ask Me Anything.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46bd5h/ama_we_are_t...