Fourteen years after the launch of Go, there is much to think about. With the benefit of hindsight, this talk explores some of the lessons learned from Go's progress so far: not just the things that went well but also the things that could have been done better.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Blog Post: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/20...

About Rob Pike: Rob is a cocreator of the Go language (with Ken Thompson and Robert Greisemer). At Bell Labs he was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He is also the coauthor (with Brian Kernighan) of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. He is cocreator (with Ken Thompson) of UTF8.