dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated

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At dotGo in 2015, Rob Pike recalls how early Go design prioritized readable code and long-term maintenance. In his view, when a language offers many ways to do the same thing, a later reader also has to understand why the author chose that particular one. He uses package imports to illustrate a different tradeoff: the code presents an import string, while the design has to account for naming, scope and linking.