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Comment by rhinoceraptor | Hacker News Reader

That's not an accident, Rob Pike famously hates syntax highlighting, he's derided it as "childish" on multiple occasions.

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You have to admit that quoting 1 Corinthians in an argument about text editors is pretty funny.

Let me guess: 1 Cor 13:11?

I can't not quote that in a Cereal Killer voice now.

Wow, that reeks of arrogance.

I don't think Pike ever gets accused of arrogance being off brand for him.

More than "made by people who avoid browsers" does?

Netsurf works fine under 9front.

I don't doubt there are browsers available, I was quoting from/commenting on something in the link.

I'm not that far behind him but on the basis that syntax highlighting is sometimes completely wrong. That leads to a lot of head scratching when it turns out the highlighting engine is wrong and the code is not. Of course this is because a lot of the engines use naive regex to do the highlighting rather than a parser.

Calling it childish is a little wrong though for sure.

it reeks of Rob Pike ;)

The guy built a programming language in the 2010's by ignoring everything that happened in the computer science community since his heyday, and tried to spin it as an improvement.

The ways people found to circumvent his hubris are pretty entertaining [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

Your comment it's utterly wrong.

Go's backstory dates back to Alef/Inferno and Plan9, and tangentally related to Plan9's C compiler suite.

If any, Go was born to replace C/POSIX and all the bloat which grew up over 40, (forty) years. The same with 9front with Unix, which is closer to the Unix philosophy than any close relative, such as OpenBSD. Everything it's a file under 9front, even the windows themselves.

Rust wants to replace C++ mainly.

Go was born to replace C/POSIX → by ignoring everything that happened in the computer science community since [its] heyday

Angry fruit salad

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