Rob Pike: Why Go Rejects Mainstream Language Complexity

O'Reilly · Talk · YouTube title: OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

Why it's here

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

What it covers

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.