Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success

Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by bch on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:20PM (#21411251)

> Python had a lot of help from marketing.. it was just that it was marketing of a different kind, from its users [...]

Perl, Tcl, Python (all scripting, I know) are (iiuc) examples that came to be without a juggernaut behind them, but then to say they had a different kind of marketing behind them is sort of tautological, no? People liked those languages and talked about it. That’s just human nature.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by pmoriarty on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:27PM (#21411331)

When mention the effect of marketing by users, I mean to distinguish that from choosing a language based on its technical merits. There's a certain amount of buzz and bandwagon effect that plays in to the success of popular languages, and, yes, languages like Perl, Tcl, and Python had it too.

That's a different sort of marketing, though, from the buzz created by having famous/respected names attached to the languges, like Go had in Google and Rob Pike.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by pjmlp on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:00PM (#21414652)

- Perl, Active State and was a standard language in most UNIXes

- Tcl, was backed by Active State and Sun for a long time

- Python, all the renowned companies Guido worked for

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