The Go Project
All programming languages reflect the programming philosophy of their creators, which often includes a significant component of reaction to the perceived shortcomings of earlier languages. The Go project was born of frustration with several software systems at Google that were suffering from an explosion of complexity. (This problem is by no means unique to Google.)
As Rob Pike put it, “complexity is multiplicative”: fixing a problem by making one part of the system more complex slowly but surely adds complexity to other parts. With constant pressure to add features and options and configurations, and to ship code quickly, it’s easy to neglect simplicity, even though in the long run simplicity is the key to good software. ...
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