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Re:Rob Pike interview by blablabla123 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:23PM (#23032651)
> I have huge respect for Rob Pike but there's a bit of revisionist history going on here.

> Go was originally envisioned as a systems programming language.

Already with the release of Go 1 it was quite clear that Go has its best fit as a Server language. I don't think the usage of a language can really be planned. But looking at the previous works of the language authors, it's clear that they worked on solutions for distributed systems.

Also I think like 10 years ago people would have written stuff in C++ that today nobody would even remotely consider writing in it.

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Re:Rob Pike interview by mgummelt on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:37PM (#23032833)
> Already with the release of Go 1 it was quite clear that Go has its best fit as a Server language.

CLIs as well. Before Go, how did you build a native CLI in a garbage collected language?

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Re:Rob Pike interview by pjmlp on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:26AM (#23039832)
I don't know, by using one that had support for AOT compilers?

Something like Java, .NET, OCaml, Haskell, D, Scheme, Common Lisp?

Yes, it isn't a typo regarding Java and .NET, there are AOT compilers for them since around 2000.

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