[hactually]

Oh, you're one of those blinkered types...

"Golang is C with garbage collection" I mean, Go isn’t C with GC - it’s C with:

- first-class concurrency (goroutines, channels)

- structural typing via interfaces

- a memory model safe enough for large-scale concurrent programs

- and tooling (formatter, linter, race detector, profiler) built in from day one.

That’s not just "C with GC." That’s decades of language design evolution deliberately integrated into a cohesive, batteries-included ecosystem that others have failed at (Typescript) or just haven't reached in their lifecycle (like Kotlin).

The Pike quote you’re half-remembering is about teams btw, not about "dumbing down" - Google had (and still has) thousands of engineers working on massive distributed systems. Go’s tradeoff wasn’t "let’s design for idiots" - it was “let’s design for readability, maintainability, and concurrency at scale.”

That’s why Go codebases from 2011 still compile cleanly today with minimal changes. Try that with your "ergonomic" TypeScript stack where half your dependencies are deprecated next quarter.

[3uler]

and that is what makes it a great language for LLM's to generate, just don't make me write it...