Hopefully they'll do one for Rust, too, next.

slowmovintarget · on March 6, 2015

That's doubtful, as the likely reason that they've written this one is that they're the same group of people that created the C language, now having moved on to Go.

Ken Thompson, one of the creators of Go, worked with Dennis Ritchie (the "R" of "K&R") at Bell Labs, and created B, the precursor to C. Rob Pike, one of the other creators of Go, worked with Brian Kernighan (the "K") on two programming books. These guys are from the same crowd, in other words.

Rust comes from the gang at Mozilla. Different generation, slightly different lineage of thought.

  C --> Unix --> Go
  Netscape --> Firefox --> Rust

zenlot · on March 7, 2015

Well, no. It was UNIX -> C.

slowmovintarget · on March 10, 2015

It was Multics -> C -> Unix -> C -> Unix... etc.

C was developed in order for Ken Thompson to write the first Unix. The development of one fed the development of the other and they came into being together.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html

zenlot · on March 19, 2015

The early versions of UNIX was not in C. C appeared a bit later. If you would take time to read the history, you would see that C jumped on just with v4.