Being the last item on Ken Thompson's resume prior to his retirement makes it kind of visible, too.
> So, there's not a lot of concrete evidence that Go has made any inroads inside Google against Java and C++ and from what I can see, the language is hardly every used outside Google as well.
Do you work at Google?
I did for over 5 years. While I left before the Go programming language was released, I seriously doubt they've transitioned much of the codebase to it, for one simple reason:
The Google codebase is fucking massive. I simply cannot describe how unbelievably huge it is, and while I don't doubt for a second that Go will be used for some of the systems-level projects (some of which Rob Pike is directly involved with - how's that for vague), you simply don't transition that big of a codebase to a new language.
It would basically be impossible... unless you're Jeff Dean.
In the way Plan 9 got mass adopted?
Do lots of people know what Alan Kay does now? Or what was McCarthy's last project?