[w-m]

How exemplary that he filled in the full template questionnaire for language changes, including questions such as "Would you consider yourself a novice, intermediate, or experienced Go programmer?" (he replied "I have some experience").

[not_knuth]

IIRC Tim Berners-Lee also rather amusingly called himself a "Web Developer" at a conference.

[furyofantares]

There's a double connotation being played with there, a web developer vs the web developer

[c3534l]

Yeah, I think that was the "rather amusingly" part.

[gowld]

He did develop the web.

[tempest_]

I found it more amusing that he listed 8 languages that he has experience with and then went out of his way to exclude JavaScript.

[aloisdg]

When you know JavaScript enough to be able to say that you don't know JavaScript.

[zibzab]

That's basically me and C++, and I suspect I am not alone

[vanderZwan]

> Is this about generics?

> No.

Not sure why, but something about this being the (first part of the) last question he had to answer makes it quite funny to me.

[marcosdumay]

When you have two questions about a specific feature that every change proposal must answer, it's a sign that something needs improvement.

[mohaine]

Personally, I like the 100% correct answer to

Can you describe a possible implementation? (Yes.)

[jasonwatkinspdx]

A couple years ago there was a clear shift in how the highest profile people in go core interact with the community. In the past it felt a bit one way. I have no idea what triggered the change, but it's definitely visible, and hugely positive imo.

[Waterluvian]

There's the General who responds, "You don't need to see my ID. Don't you know who I am? Who's your CO?!"

And the General who responds, "Right. Well done."

[nicklecompte]

Also good:

> What would change in the language spec?

> The new operator would get an optional second argument, and/or conversions would become addressible.

> [...]

> How would the language spec change?

> Answered above. Why is this question here twice?