Russ Cox on the Past and Future of Go
People of ACM – Russ Cox
In this ACM People profile, Russ Cox, the lead of the Go project at Google, discusses the evolution of the language, from its origins at Google to its widespread adoption. He reflects on the challenges of maintaining simplicity while adding features, the philosophy behind Go's design, and what lies ahead for the language and its community.
Go was designed to address the problems of the 2000s, but it's still relevant today because we've stayed true to the core idea of simplicity.
- SA9G
I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.
- shaftoe444
> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
- dchest
I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.