/prog/s opinion on Go

You know, the google thing.  Personally I'm a bit excited for a compiled python-like C language.  It's going to take for fucking ever for it to become useful, though, especially with google's slow and steady attitude.  I could see it catching on though kind of like python did.

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Google may be a nice place to work, but it's still the Enterprise. Peter Norvig(wrote PAIP and other interesting books) works there and he agrees that languages that are powerful and offer a lot of features, but can't be understood by average programmers don't belong in their company, as it's just an unacceptable risk. He also agrees that if he was the one writing the application, he'd just pick the better language and be done with it, but since they have the money and the workforce, picking easier to understand, but less capable languages are the sane choices for a company in the long run.