my uninformed impression is that making cancellation and error propagation easier are pretty high up most Go programmer’s desiderata regardless of the whole structured concurrency thing
That’s a difference that would make ops people cry.
Evolution
I never encourage people to break the law, that’s up to them… on the flip side, I don’t want the law breaking my data either.
Rob Pike, “Upspin,” GopherFest 2017, San Francisco CA
Overheard
I do wonder if the Dis VM is a close enough match for Go as a target
obviously you would call this DisGo and the resulting system would be DisGo Inferno
Appropriation
If you look closely, those aren’t angle brackets, they’re characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers.
Hard Work
Simplicity is complicated but the clarity is worth the fight.
Rob Pike, “Simplicity is Complicated,” dotGo 2015, Paris