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henry700 | 7 months ago

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

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philosophty|7 months ago

These guys have each forgotten 10x than you know about programming.

https://swtch.com/~rsc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Griesemer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

homebrewer|7 months 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).

henry700|7 months ago

Fair point. The tragedy is that it could’ve been much more. But that was never the goal...