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Skill? Go? With the amount of mistakes piling up over the years comparable to PHP at this point? Really??

• philosophty 1y ago
  These guys have each forgotten 10x than you know about programming. https://swtch.com/~rsc/ https://swtch.com/~rsc/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Griesemer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Griesemer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
  • henry700 1y ago
    Fair point. The tragedy is that it could’ve been much more. But that was never the goal...
  • homebrewer 1y ago
    Being exceptionally talented programmers does not automatically make them good language designers. I can think of a couple of people who may not be as good at programming, but are light years ahead at designing languages (and maintaining them over long term).