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by jtakkala
2240 days ago
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> Go was originally envisioned as a systems programming language. It was often called "a better C". This exposed Rob Pike's lack of experience in the area (IMHO) because anyone who had done any systems programming at all knew that garbage collection made any systems language a nonstarter. I've said this before, but even back in early 2014 Rob Pike had said that he regretted the term "systems programming" because people misunderstood him to mean it as a language for writing operating systems, when what he meant was a language for writing servers, although that later evolved to cloud infrastructure. He answers this at 6:50 here, https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pa... |
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