dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
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Rob Pike's dotGo 2015 talk argues that Go only seems simple, and that its simplicity hides real complexity that is part of the design. He explains the thinking behind Go's restraint in features.
Why HN recommends it: HN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.
“It's an active choice of the language to not allow many syntactic sugars that make the code have a much higher learning curve.” Read on HN ↗