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0 pointsblondin6y ago0 comments

your quote is just corroborating what the reply is saying. go was written for web services which were written in c++ at google.

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latch6y ago

The linked article doesn't say anything about web services. Just C++. I believe Rob Pike was working on GFS and log management, and Go was always initially pitched at system programming (which is not web services).

> Our target community was ourselves, of course, and the broader systems-programming community inside Google. (1)

(1) http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623555

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