Comment by quotemstr
3 years ago
> this shatters the myth of Google(r) superiority. It turns out people are universally entities comprised of sloppy, error-prone wetware.
Golang was created with the specific goal of sidestepping what had become a bureaucratic C++ "readability" process within Google, so yes. Goodhart's law in action.
The problem with C++ is not getting readability, but footguns! footguns everywhere! Plus the compile time.
That’s not at all true. Go has readability as well.
It has it now. For a long, long time, readability for Golang at Google was "Read some of the other Go code out there. Try to make it look like that."
(I don't have enough historical knowledge to comment on the notion that Go was invented to sidestep the need to get more team members readability in C++ though).