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dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated

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.

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HN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
dotconferences
Topic
go language design
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
7
HN mentions in dataset
14
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2023

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  • I hadn't been particularly enthusiastic about Go but in the end Rob Pike won me over - "Simplicity is Complicated": [VIDEO] A powerful talk on Silicon Valley history by Kelsey Gilmore-Innis - "What Tech Workers Can Learn From Harry Bridges": [LINK]

    musha68k on Hacker News · 2016-01
    In Ask HN: Best (Tech) talks from 2015

  • It's an active choice of the language to not allow many syntactic sugars that make the code have a much higher learning curve. [VIDEO] is a good overview.

    donatj on Hacker News · 2016-07
    In John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

  • To me it feels like apples to oranges comparison. I watched this talk on strangeloop a long time ago, and a version of this talk given on RailsConf recently (watched recently, not given). Here's what I see on the page: > Complex constructs: State, Object, …

    paulriddle on Hacker News · 2018-04
    In Ask HN: Why is data simpler than syntax?

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