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Rob Pike about the target group of the Go programming language (golang)
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A short excerpt of Rob Pike's Lang.NEXT 2014 talk where he describes Go's target audience as young Google programmers who are not researchers. The language has to be easy for them to understand and adopt.
Cited to show who Go was designed for, often in critiques of the language's simplicity.
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