I’m joining the Go team at Google
&gt;<i>As I had before, I recognized that this technology had the potential to revolutionize how software was written at a fundamental level.</i><p>Congrats and all, and I love Hugo (use it all the time).<p>That said, I think the kool-aid was spiked with something.<p>Sorry, but in what way is Go &quot;revolutionizing&quot;?<p>I&#x27;d buy &quot;refreshing simplicity&quot; and &quot;yay, static builds again&quot; but it&#x27;s hardly revolutionary, even in its most touted feature (channels).<p>And it hardly changed how people write software. At best, it introduced some dynamic language programmers to static types and static builds.<p>All the rest, including creating a language that&#x27;s easy for average programmers to program at scale was already the goal, and a success at that, of Java.