No Go is literally a 1000x bigger achievement than the Mona Lisa, because somehow we managed to get a bunch of people to come together and somehow create a miracle of engineering.
In a perfect world, where the market also adopts the most efficient technological solutions. Plan 9 should have been the operating system that ruled the Earth and became essentially what Linux is today. The OS that runs the world. And if that did actually happen, we'd honestly be a dramatically different technological landscape. Essentially the "cloud" would have been done 20 years earlier and it wouldn't be owned by big tech corporations. Every device you use would be connected with every device everybody else uses. A lot of ugly unix hacks like docker, filecoin, dropbox, hell even facebook, twitter etc wouldn't actually exist like they do today if we simply just kept letting Rob Pike and Ken Thompson lead the way to our utopian computation destiny. The reason why I say Go is a miracle, is because some how they managed to take most of the truly revolutionary ideas that made plan 9 superior to Unix in every way, and basically give unix a huge buff that makes about 75% of the serious grievances we suffer from being stuck in a "HELP WE CANT GET THE WORLD TO MOVE ON FROM UNIX" dilemma. Rob has a really important paper talking about this where the reason why plan 9 failed is because it wasn't a "big" enough improvement over Unix, because its not like Ford introducing the car to replace the horse. It's literally like trying to convince the world to replace their cheap $1500 reused sedan for a Tesla model 3 when the only thing 99% of people care about is whether they can get to work everyday (without breaking the bank.) The point is that plan 9 is literally the tesla roadster, but because everybody is pretty used to their Ford Model T, they don't change to the obviously optimal "technological progression" that paves the way to even greater innovations like who knows jetson esque flying cars. Go is a miracle because somehow it is an actually "beautiful" Unix hack in the sense that the mad scientists here have somehow managed to bring all the tesla perks to the model T you already own, and not only have we saved the world from climate chain, but it literally was free of cost. Its not the greatest metaphor, but my point is that if I had to choose between burning the Mona Lisa or cp -r * all the goroots in the world, and I only considered the merit of which work of art is the greater testament to the potential of humanity (and why the aliens should ultimately retain faith in us and spare us despite all the horrors they would witness if they decided to touched down now); obviously I would burn the bitch. And I don't say that lightly because I view Davinci as literally the role model every engineer should aspire to become a poor imitation of. But still his magnus opus doesn't even come close to how much more beautiful Go is in comparison. On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:04:19 PM UTC-5 Carla Pfaff wrote: > It's not an uncommon practice for teams that run a public website to raise > awareness for a good cause, usually by supporting fundraising for a social > nonprofit charitable organization. Some choose a children's cancer charity > or the Wikimedia foundation, this is what the Go team chose. This does not > mean that other issues in the world are not important. > > The Go project has never been a sterile place, it always had a personal > touch from its creators, see for example the cute gopher drawings. It's > also not a science centric community (btw, science is political too, always > has been) nor is the Go website the Mona Lisa. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/50ce29f4-b791-42c5-9e57-83b9ee7fb74bn%40googlegroups.com.
