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tptacek on Dec 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What languages fix

Go: C is too low-level, C++ is too complicated, and neither is adequate for concurrency.

(That's an attempt at summarizing Rob Pike and fitting it into Graham's framework, not necessarily what I believe, although I believe something close).

frou_dh on Dec 27, 2013 [–]

A sane module system was a big part of it, according to the SPLASH talk.

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