> As I understand it, Google's rationale for Go is to enable them to hire a lot of say, good-but-not-great fresh CS graduates with little or no practical experience and produce software at their scale without putting those new hires through a multi-year training programme.
From my discussions with employees at Google, the rationale for Go is to keep a large staff of promising CS graduates busy on dead-end projects (while preventing them from causing too much damage) until something takes off and they need to actually put some of that spare headcount to use.
From my discussions with employees at Google, the rationale for Go is to keep a large staff of promising CS graduates busy on dead-end projects (while preventing them from causing too much damage) until something takes off and they need to actually put some of that spare headcount to use.