The person I responded to said that "they expected everyone to jump on the bandwagon and abandon all their legacy code".
That's not even close to what Rob Pike wrote on his blog.
That's not even close to what Rob Pike wrote on his blog.
What part of "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative" isn't clear enough?
> I feel like languages like Go and Rust didn’t become C++ killers because they expected everyone to jump on the bandwagon and abandon all their legacy code
Abandon is not a synonymous with rewrite, last time I checked a dictionary.