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> Go's language design process as rebelling against most other languages that seem to want to put other language features in them for the sake of it

Rob Pike in 2015, about what Go was trying to avoid:

"Java, JavaScript (ECMAScript), Typescript, C#, C++, Hack (PHP), and more [...] actively borrow features from one another. They are converging into a single huge language." [0]

[0] https://www.dotconferences.com/2015/11/rob-pike-simplicity-i...




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