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Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by StavrosK on Friday August 31, 2012 @05:16AM (#4458913)
> In hindsight it doesn't seem so surprising.

Most things don't seem surprising in hindsight. That's why you don't judge surprises by it.

If C++ programmers did flock to Go, would you then say that that was surprising? If not, you've just fallen victim to hindsight bias (because a model that predicts everything is useless).

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Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by cageface on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:38AM (#4459202)
Most things don't seem surprising in hindsight. That's why you don't judge surprises by it.

Surprising was GP's original term, not mine.

I don't expect Go or any other language to displace C++ any time soon. But I do think the "scripting" languages are very vulnerable to challenges from languages with static typing systems less primitive than Java's.

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Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by StavrosK on Friday August 31, 2012 @09:05AM (#4459486)
That's because the GP was surprised. I rather should have said, you don't judge that something wasn't surprising by hindsight.

Hindsight makes things obvious.

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