If anyone deserves this, it’s Rob Pike. He was instrumental in inflicting Go on the world. He could have studied programming languages and done something to improve the state of the art and help communicate good practices to a wider audience. Instead he perpetuated 1970s thinking about programming with no knowledge or understanding of what we’ve discovered in the half-century since then.
As you think Go is a wrong way for computing, tell us about the others routes that we should explore…
I'll take that bet.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
by rhubarbtree on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:57AM
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Wait until you hear about the -bad- programming languages.
They’ve clearly bought too much into AI hype if they thought telling the agent to “do good” would work. The result was obviously pissing the hell out of rob pike. They should stop it.