Comment by jeremyjh
10 hours ago
These things were all known when development on Go began. But, as with so many other aspects of the language, if it wasn't known in the 80s/90s then it may as well not have existed.
10 hours ago
These things were all known when development on Go began. But, as with so many other aspects of the language, if it wasn't known in the 80s/90s then it may as well not have existed.
I don’t know why people criticize Go for not being a cutting edge research language when that was very explicitly not the goal. Lots of things were available in the research at the time, and much of that has gone ~nowhere.
Starting with what they knew to work and iterating from there is wise.