@robpike I have long appreciated your ability to acknowledge flaws in your reasoning. Your utah-2000 talk at LANL convinced me to leave the ivory tower, and it was wrong in ways I didn't appreciate at the time. Even those mistakes are valuable: we do the best we can in the moment, and pretending like mistakes don't happen is objectively worse. You made your reasons clear, and made a decision despite the uncertainty.
I also appreciate you subjecting yourself to the SRE pool sharks...
@robpike Thanks for this. Really nice story, and Go is the last new language I learned and wrote non-trivial amounts of code in. I like the stability and that I could come back to code I hadn’t looked at for a long time and quickly be able to modify it.
@robpike reading this at the same time I’m reading Annapurna by Maurice Herzog is interesting and makes me yearn for book length engineering retrospectives. I enjoy the first person perspective far more than the outsider perspective presented in Soul of a New Machine. The detail and humanity of a first person account is just far more valuable to me than the professionalism of the prose.
The 20th or 25th anniversary of Go would be a great opportunity for a book length retrospective. 😁
@robpike one thing I think you did absolutely right was to provide a FFI from the very first day of Go being publicly available, in the form of cgo. To me it showed that Go wanted to follow a pragmatic route of integrating/wrapping existing C code to get (some) complex things done in the beginning.
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