[ernst_klim]

>Go doesn't have generics, not from a lack of knowledge, but because the authors' real world software engineering experience had shown to them it wasn't important.

What do you mean by "real world software engineering experience", Acme or Plan9? These are silly academic projects with tens of installations at best.

[kjeetgill]

If your only metric is installations I'd say go is doing quite well at least.

[overcyn]

Ken Thompson was one of the original authors of Unix

[ernst_klim]

We are discussing Pike's profound engineering experience which constitutes the background of his bold claims about language design.

[overcyn]

So really this isn’t a discussion about the design of Go (of which Ken Thompson was a part of) but just a chance to trash on someone you don’t like.