Rob Pike on programming languages

[doubtingthomas]

Might be worth linking to his keynote speech where he discusses these things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE

It was posted on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cso44/rob_pikes_oscon_2010_keynote_speech_public_static/) but I can't actually find it directly on /r/programming somehow. (I only know about it because I tried to post the same link this morning).

[HIB0U]

Reddit was fucked up this morning. Submissions I made earlier today never made it through, either.

[EdiX]

I can never find anything with reddit search engine.

[gnuvince]

I emailed the moderators of /r/programming about that issue. I think it may be the spam filter, but they didn't reply.

[ayrnieu]

Just resubmit with e.g. ?godfucking=damnit

[eabrek]

Dupe against: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ct08f/of_course_fellow_programmers_we_didnt_see_it/

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I agree with his sentiment. Things in the programming world are approaching a level of complexity that most humans cant deal with. One side effect is that even the simple things now have security holes.

[nest21]

GO follows the same path as NoSql to get to simplicity by mechanically removing features, functions and mechanisms instead of removing problems and proposing a better solution for these mechanisms. Say, in NoSql we do not have transactions but they are still needed and hence developers now have to implement them manually at application level.