[dist-epoch]

Become? Always has been.

It was intentionally designed for programmers with limited skill.

Go language creator Rob Pike:

> 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.

[anthk]

Not that true; it was dessigned as the C succesor for Unix. The Go counterpart for the Post-Unix OS would be Inferno and Limbo. 9front has a C and compiler suite (among CSP) which is like the link between their Unix/C and modern Go. Literally as the first Go releases used C plan9 compilers.

[p2detar]

> It was intentionally designed for programmers with limited skill.

No. That is not true. It was designed as a language so programmers of all levels can be productive at the scale of what Google does and across possibly many different teams, no matter your prior background. Google does a lot at scale and a language that is easy to pick up and handles concurrency seamlessly is definitely a helpful tool.

[pjmlp]

Nope, it was designed by one Oberon, and two UNIX heads, disgruntled to be faced with C++ at their work, they happened to be working at Google, and got support from their managers for developing it further.

Thanks to Docker pivoting from Python into Go, and Kubernetes from Java into Go, while it was still pre-1.0, it managed to take off, and has more users outside Google than at Google itself, where Java, Kotlin, C++, Python still dominate most projects outside Kubernetes ecosystem.

There is a certain irony that Google would need a language like Go, given their hiring process.

[anthk]

Go it's just condensed Plan9 C philosophy (and Limbo/Alef) for legacy Unix users. If we ditched Unix in the 90's being Inferno and Plan9 under a libre licenses GNU would be running Emacs under an Inferno kernel.

Also, proper namespaces from the start, Unicode, 9p even under Emacs and who knows what. Oh, and fore sure far less exploits, and with no Kubernetes or Docker nonsense. Half of VC's would be bankrupt today because damn namespaces would do the 90% of today's backends seamlessly.

And maybe we would be using some Inferno based smartphone with custom UI's and programming in Limbo for that. Oh, and batteries lasting a week for sure.

[pjmlp]

Except that it throws away many nice things about Inferno and Limbo, and also proves the point that techonlogy needs good sponsors to make it out into the market..

[antonvs]

> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language

What a coincidence, since Rob Pike wasn't capable of designing a brilliant language.

[boxed]

Such a weird take from him since Go has a bunch of pit falls that are not needed at all.