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by pjmlp
1519 days ago
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Yes, you just needed to search for Lang NEXT 2014 and Rob Pike. Enjoy the video, https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." Or if you prefer reading, https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article "It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical." |
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That link is to a panel Rob Pike participated in at the same conference. I'm not sure if he makes similar remarks during that panel, but that "fairly young, fresh out of school" quote specifically comes from Rob Pike's presentation at the same conference titled From Parallel to Concurrent, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrP_EmGNmw