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Thanks for sharing! I'm not really good enough to make the right call, but I get your points. So you would prefer someone in Google to build custom tools or int

Thanks for sharing! I'm not really good enough to make the right call, but I get your points. So you would prefer someone in Google to build custom tools or introduce features into the C++ language and compilers to fix those issues, not to create a new language. Either way, this is so above my head :D that I can only listen and learn.

cmrdporcupine 14d ago
FWIW that is exactly what happened, to some degree. And I'm not opposed to language change, I just didn't see why they needed to create a new language instead of adopting something the industry was already working on. They could have thrown their weight behind Rust, for example, in the early days. The specific compromises inside Go seem on the whole quite idiosyncratic and led by Rob Pike's personal biases. And it was sold as "Google's language" when in fact Google wasn't really using it for most of that time (they are in fact adopting it a lot more now)