I'm not the OP, but it felt like Go was coming from a culture a little bit different from the mainstream programming culture. The guys who made Go have worked together at Bell labs for year on stuff like Plan 9 and to me it seems that they lost touch with the rest of the world.
> The guys who made Go have worked together at Bell labs for year on stuff like Plan 9 and to me it seems that they lost touch with the rest of the world.
Before they worked on Plan 9 they created Unix, that the *nix world lost its way from its simple, small and beautiful roots is clearly something that still pains them greatly.
I would not say that they lost touch with the rest of the world, but that the rest of the world lost touch with them, which has been a great loss.
From piecing together the history I think it's clear that the real magic came from Ritchie. I doubt that Pike and Thompson in particular were ever in touch with the rest of the world.
Things like variable declarations matching the look of how variables are used ('inside out' parsing) are not simple and are responsible for the certain something that makes C work. And Unix was never beautiful, it was always a huge hack.
