Re:Do the Go developers hate Unix?
by codesoap on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:33PM
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> go is the worst because the unix-hater club at the root of their development team
I was surprised to find this sentiment about Go. I always felt Go focused on simplicity, modularity, good tooling and even good integration with C. Those are qualities that seem UNIX-affirmative to me.
Where does De Raadt's opinion come from? Could it be referring to Rob Pike's blasphemic Plan 9 adventure or is it just a provocative rambling about a certain ioctl-incident?
I was surprised to find this sentiment about Go. I always felt Go focused on simplicity, modularity, good tooling and even good integration with C. Those are qualities that seem UNIX-affirmative to me.
Where does De Raadt's opinion come from? Could it be referring to Rob Pike's blasphemic Plan 9 adventure or is it just a provocative rambling about a certain ioctl-incident?