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“processed_title”: “Ken Thompson Reveals the Genesis of Go: From Bell Labs to Google”,
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In a rare retrospective, computing pioneer Ken Thompson has shed light on the origins of the Go programming language. As a co-creator of Unix and a legend at Bell Labs, Thompson joined Google and eventually teamed up with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer to solve a critical problem: the frustration with C++’s complexity in the age of multicore hardware and massive codebases.
The development wasn’t just an academic exercise; it was a reaction to the “hardware lottery” of failing to utilize modern CPUs efficiently. Thompson details how the team prioritized simplicity, compilation speed, and safety—features that were often considered trade-offs in systems programming. By combining the efficiency of C with the safety of modern static typing and built-in concurrency, they inadvertently created the standard for cloud-native infrastructure.
For developers, this backstory highlights a crucial lesson: Go was designed to remove friction, proving that sometimes the most disruptive innovation is just making existing work easier and faster to manage.
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“tags”: “Google, Golang, Ken Thompson, Programming, Development, Tech History”
}
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