FWIW that is exactly what happened, to some degree.
And I'm not opposed to language change, I just didn't see why they needed to create a new language instead of adopting something the industry was already working on. They could have thrown their weight behind Rust, for example, in the early days.
The specific compromises inside Go seem on the whole quite idiosyncratic and led by Rob Pike's personal biases. And it was sold as "Google's language" when in fact Google wasn't really using it for most of that time (they are in fact adopting it a lot more now)
And I'm not opposed to language change, I just didn't see why they needed to create a new language instead of adopting something the industry was already working on. They could have thrown their weight behind Rust, for example, in the early days.
The specific compromises inside Go seem on the whole quite idiosyncratic and led by Rob Pike's personal biases. And it was sold as "Google's language" when in fact Google wasn't really using it for most of that time (they are in fact adopting it a lot more now)