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> Go is an engineer’s language.

No, Ada/Spark is an example of a good engineers language. Go is a mediocre effort at best. Rob Pikes defence is that it was designed for junior Googlers who "aren't capable of understanding a brilliant language". Yes that's a real quote.



What’s a brilliant language in this context


You'd have to ask Rob Pike. My own example of a brilliant language is Haskell, but it's not without problems.


Apparently anything that offers a type system beyond Go's.




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