Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail
by purplemoonx on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:20AM
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Your comment reveals you were not around then.
Go was absolutely not mainstream in 200 fucking 9. When Flash dominated the web and everyone did Wordpress for websites. Nobody (at large) did Go before they did Node.
You are pointing to extremely early design discussions you absolute twat. Get real. Anyone who was active in their career in ~2013 knows that's exactly when Go came out.
I am from San Francisco and lived here my whole life - and it wasn't the epicenter of tech then (2013) but Mountain View sure as fuck was, and it's like 45m away and I would fucking know if Go was written in 2009 and it wasn't.
You're a liar. Go away
This is a strange and ahistorical take. Go was heavily discussed in 2009 after it was first announced by Google. It didn't go four years between public announcement in 2009 and people finally learning of it in 2013.
Major themes of discussion in 2009: Does it have generics and if not, why not? How does it compare to Erlang? And why did they reuse the name from this language Go! we all just heard about five minutes ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936544 - from the day after the language was publicly revealed.
The first two topics (generics and how it compares to Erlang) are still discussed today, though the former is now mostly complaining that it has generics instead of complaining that it doesn't have generics.