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Comment by krenoten | Hacker News Reader

Google is a huge place. I don't pretend to know what everybody, most people, or even a sizeable fraction of people there think. But a significant majority of the people I have spoken with strongly disagree with the choice not to invest more in the type system. Take it with salt, but that is the noise I hear from my position on the outside. It may not match your experience, but it isn't nonsense. Just another datapoint.

On the flip side, I'm glad that the Plan 9 port was contributed by the outside community, and that my suspicions about a poor engineer being put up to overtly political work were untrue.

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When first you say

> Most Googlers I've spoken to despise this guy's reactionary lordship over the project

and then water it down to

> a significant majority of the people I have spoken with strongly disagree with the choice not to invest more in the type system.

then it seems like you're editorialising. Bear in mind that you're talking about real people and real relationships. Fanning the flames of hatred is unnecessary at best and sociopathic at worst. (Yes, I know people do this on the Internet all the time. That doesn't make it right.)

Editorialization is a trivial truth of human expression. Real people really hate decisions that significantly increase the amount of work that it takes them to express complexity. This particular influencer of the project happens to have been blamed fairly harshly by internal users for doing so. As someone who is partially responsible for the progress of this tool, it's probably a good idea to try to improve user's productivity rather than claim that it's nonsense for people to have strong opinions against its decisions.

Did anyone expect all commenters to be hard-facts-only journalists here? I come here for the rumors.

And this is the 3rd time in a few months that I've heard that Googlers generally don't like Go and don't use it. So, that's kind of interesting.

Anyway, I don't think you can call an activity sociopathic if the vast majority of humans take part in it. (Having opinions and spreading rumors didn't start with the Internet either.)

Lots of Googlers like Go and use it. I'm using it for a hobby project that I'm working on right now.

> I don't think you can call an activity sociopathic if the vast majority of humans take part in it.

If you think the vast majority of people go around saying negative shit about people they don't know, then you need to reevaluate your worldview.

Maybe you're experiencing some observation bias, as the people who do this are highly visible, but the reality is that most people do not relish publicly spreading negativity.

There's a reason why people become known as the "town gossip" and are looked down upon for it.

I don't think it's true that "Googlers generally don't like Go". Some like it, and some don't. From my vantage point, the majority (maybe 80% or so) who have actually tried to do real with in Go seem to like it.

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