Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success

Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by ncmncm on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:38PM (#21414928)

"Marketing" means money.

There was never any money behind Python, or C++. Both paid their own way, all the way: people actually using one put in sweat because they believed it made things better for them.

That is the diametrical opposite of marketing.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by groovebits on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:41PM (#21414944)

Never any money in c++, pretty sure Bell labs funded bjorne

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by ncmncm on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:12PM (#21415120)

Bell Labs paid his salary, but they paid it before C++ as much as after, and would have paid it without. If others had not taken up C++, he would have gone on to other things. C++'s unique contribution was the destructor, not adopted elsewhere until D and then Rust.

The contrast is against Sun spending literally $billions on Java puffery. Go has put a lot more support into Go, by that standard, but still barely $millions, if that.

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