== Link: Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering

[[Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article]] is an article version of
a Rob Pike keynote on, well, let me just quote:

> [[The Go programming language http://golang.org/]] was conceived
> in late 2007 as an answer to some of the problems we were seeing
> developing software infrastructure at Google. [...]
>
> Go was designed and developed to make working in this environment more
> productive. [...]

The article then discusses what this means and how various aspects of
Go's design were consciously shaped by a number of pragmatic software
engineering issues in building large software across large(r) teams.
I find it really interesting reading (and I keep referring to it and
having to re-find it, so it's clearly time to put this somewhere
more obvious).