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OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

O'Reilly · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design

What it is

A 13-minute OSCON 2010 talk in which Rob Pike argues about what is wrong with mainstream languages like C++, Java and C#, and presents Go as a response. He discusses verbosity and what lightness means in a language.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as a concise statement of the thinking behind Go's design.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Rob Pike argues exactly that in this short talk on why they made Go”

    Short talk on why Go was made

    james4k, 2012-11 · Recommendation · in “Go is PHP for the Backend”

  2. “gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction”

    Short speech on what's wrong with C++/Java/C# and Go's response

    dottrap, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Why is there so much hate for .NET?”

  3. “12 minutes where Pike talks about a few things, that seem to be wrong in our software world”

    Rob Pike spends 12 minutes on what he sees as wrong in software.

    mtrn, 2015-06 · Recommendation · in “The Unix Philosophy”

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Topics: rob pike, golang, language design, verbosity, oscon

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