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keithba ◴[25 Mar 15 22:16 UTC] No.9266381[source]▶

"So Rob Pike is basically saying that the developers at Google aren’t very good so they’ve developed a dumbed down language so they can get things done."

I read the Pike quote very differently. When Pike says: "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers." I thought he meant programmers today use google to assist them in programming.

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1. robbrit ◴[25 Mar 15 22:41 UTC] No.9266515[source]▶

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"Googler" means "someone who works at Google". He's saying the language is designed for people who are in large, transient teams building large-scale production systems, not people who want to explore advanced programming language concepts.

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“Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”