I’ve been following Go for a while due to the influence of one of my personal heroes: Ken Thompson (due to his hand in making Unix and C programming language). Many years ago I met Douglas Crockford. At that point I was looking into low level implementation of parsers why I suggested a JVM language with more primitive structures in order to simplify implementation of more low level performance critical parts: If you make a JVM language with goto people will start coding web apps in it. The comment w[...]