Tony Morris

C was a pretty good solution for 1975. What's bad is we're stuck with Pike's idea of a replacement.

I think this conversation has now shifted to a discussion of Go's value as a language, which is completely different

Not sure it is completely different. It springs from the same place as the quote.

Uni's teach Python, many know it, Google's trying to get as much value as possible out of people with that skill set not advancing the SOTA.

if Google is, as a business, "not advancing the SOTA" then everyone should know it, and look elsewhere for progress. God knows we need some.

I don't think anyone looking to Go for pointers on cutting edge PL design. But I think the Go team knows a lot about tooling & runtimes.

the people who worked on the Pinto were great upholsterers.

Then blame those who buy Pintos. Devs are the cause of this mess, not Google.