continuation

https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/447523678561898496

Why do I think Go is more 'distributed' than other languages, and why do I think that is a good thing ?

1. Go does not have a BDFL, there is no Guido Van Rossem, no Theo De Ralt, etc. We have our spiritual leaders like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, but their influence is much less immediate.

2. The very nature of the development of the Go standard library discourages adding new stuff to the standard library.

2a. I believe this is a good thing

2b. I believe this is is by design, not every library should aspire to being included in the standard library.

2c. See 2a

2d. I believe this this is a deliberate decision by the Go authors to encourage people to write and develop their own libraries which are not perceived as 2nd class compared to the std library. You can see this in the way that GOPATH overlays GOROOT, they are no independent namespaces -- your code and the code in the stdlib has the same precedence.

3. Taking these last two points as written, Go doesn't appear to need, or inspire, centralization.

4. For all it's problems, go get is phenomenally successful and required no central repository or coordinating body.

I made a readable version by renaming it to ".md": https://gist.github.com/mipearson/9717336

lifehack #protip

Your code is a second class citizen compared to he standard library. There are special C functions in the runtime, not available to you, but available to, say, the net package. You can't insert your fd to Go's event loop on your own, net does that by utilizing net·* functions, etc.