[nemo1618]

I'm relieved to see that the fate of Go is ultimately controlled by a small team of highly talented engineers, not a nebulous "community" that designs by democracy.

If Go had been designed by community vote from the beginning, it would almost certainly have generics... and operator overloading, and exceptions, and 50 exposed GC knobs, and macros -- and a SAT-based dependency resolver, of course.

I trust Russ, Rob, and the rest to get it right, and they've proven that my trust is justified over and over again.

[ngngngng]

> nebulous "community" that designs by democracy

I can't read that statement without thinking of perl, and the nightmare of developing in a team of perl devs. We don't need ten thousand ways of doing things and not everyone needs their way to be represented. I'm very happy to have Russ enforce one "right" way of doing things and vgo seems to fit that nicely. One less argument for me and my fellow engineers using go to argue about.