Any chance that they'll disavow it?

I guess the difference is that it will now be overt

The backing comes at a crucial time as Lindner's Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, announced in June that all ties with the bank were to be frozen pending a government review over claims made by a former Canadian top executive at the bank, who reported widespread "communist dominance" within the institution since its foundation in 2016 — allegations that the AIIB denies.

You mean the investment fund that was literally founded by the Chinese government because China had less voting rights in the existing "Asian Development Bank" than the fucking United States of America? The one they have minority voting rights in?

The full depth of this reasoning is just "China bad", that's it. That's the quality of our public officials. This country is a fucking joke.

Completely fair. I'm mostly interested in what it can do for distributed computing and inter-organizational trust and most of that is being done outside flashy VC circles and not getting much media coverage. Naturally anything that allows organizing outside of bougie government institutions is good up to and including crime money

oh shit they went and made the amazon show into a book

be strong

okay, sure. I will never doubt any allegations about forum cops. down with whoever that is

It's never whataboutism to point out hypocrisy. Denounce in a way that's consistent and not self serving, or don't do it.

Quelle esti d'idée de marde

It does, and it gets bonus points for how adorable/nostalgic that code sample is. Godspeed to you friend

The language was designed to be as simple as possible, as to not confuse the developers at Google. I know this sounds like something I made up in bad faith, but it's really not.

The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical. – Rob Pike

The infamous if err != nil blocks are a consequence of building the language around tuples (as opposed to, say, sum types like in Rust) and treating errors as values like in C. Rob Pike attempts to explain why it's not a big deal here.

uhhh yeah? sure