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by cmrdporcupine 1648 days ago
I mean, I actually work(ed) at Google and this is nonsense for Google developers.

The most used and deployed code at Google is written in C++, not Java or Python, and while we have a sane subset of it in our style guide it is by no means dumbed down to the level that Pike seems to imply we need it to be.

Google has done fairly fine deploying C++ into production for a couple decades. I haven't found Go superior at all so far, more insulting than anything. And tedious and opinionated in all the wrong ways.

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I just replied to your other comment further up thread, but yes this is my anecdotal experience as well. You couldn't walk ten feet without tripping over C++ and Java. Never myself saw Go checked into corp.
Seems Go insulted you so much that you really lost sense of proportion or any reasonableness in your comments.
I never had that, so we can't blame Go.