Rob Pike: Go at Google
What annoys me a little bit about Go (and other projects similarly adherent to "worse is better") is the implied dichotomy between "research" and making "programming lives better". Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is exactly about! This isn't just about Haskell either: most other PL research is also about making programming lives easier. And Go ignores essentially all of it.Now, there is even nothing strictly wrong about ignoring research like that. It's just annoying how they revel in ignoring all recent progress in the field.