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Re:One year of Rust by laughinghan on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:59PM (#11710506)
The 4 commits before 2008 are pretty clearly not development on Go in any sense, they appear to be Brian Kernighan playing with the syntax and styling for a C "hello world" program: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=810

No one would say those commits show he was working on Go as a "personal project" during that time.

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Re:One year of Rust by kibwen on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:33PM (#11726567)
And I guarantee that none of the Rust commits from before 2011 survive to this day, because the compiler was rewritten from scratch in 2011. :P A different argument could say that Go dates back to 1995, because Go is essentially an evolution of Rob Pike's language Limbo.
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