You have to make a decision whether it’s a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out. – Rob Pike
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel – that pretty much the entire Internet runs on – is written in C. – Rob Pike
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. – Rob Pike
Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. – Rob Pike
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time. – Rob Pike
Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. – Rob Pike
When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. – Rob Pike
We don’t believe we’ve solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we’ve built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. – Rob Pike
