> Maybe you don't realize that "they" includes Ken Thompson himself... You may disagree with the Go design team's decisions, but it's amusingly absurd to accuse them of inexperience.

Not really, if anything, Go shows that its designers have a lot of inexperience when it comes to modern language design.

Go would have been a kille language in the late 90's but it seems to ignore everything that we've learned about language design in the past decade.

Quite true, every single feature can be traced back to 80's and 90's languages that for whatever reason did not manage to become mainstream.

Maybe one could make a table stating the language feature and which language provided it for the first time.

Just an update on my comment.

Even if the language is like that, if it helps improving the situation where young developers learn that strong typing does not have anything to do with VMs, I find it quite positive.

Just because he created UNIX, does not make him right in every technology decision he takes.