Thanks

[Chris Burkert]

Several messages during the last weeks irritated me and I guess I was not the only one. Eventually we are all humans but often enough we don’t treat ourselves like that. Let’s treat machines like machines and humans like humans - not the other way round.

That’s why I want to say “Thank you Gophers”! Thanks to to Rob, Ken an Robert for creating an awesome piece of software. Thanks to Russ and Ian for continuing this work. And thanks to all the contributors no matter for which company you work.

There will never be a 100% agreement on implementation details and there will never be a perfect process for decision taking. I believe we are lucky to have people who can take hard decisions when needed but can also say “no”. I’d like to express my respect for their work. It’s too easy to blame others in charge not being in their shoes.

Go is an awesome language with amazing tooling and the latest efforts will not suddenly morph it into a mess. For some it will further improve, for others it may become worse. But I believe that essentially Go will remain awesome.

PS: please excuse me if I couldn’t find proper English terms. It’s already hard in my mother tongue with Kode and Code and Quellcode and Quelltext :-)

[alex breadman]

Let's keep divisive political BS away from this lovely project.

Glad to see the political header removed from the website, at least on mobile.

All lives matter.

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[Dan Kortschak]

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 22:09 +0000, alex breadman wrote:
> Let's keep divisive political BS away from this lovely project.
>
> Glad to see the political header removed from the website, at least
> on mobile.
>
> All lives matter.

This too is a political statement.

[Peter Wilson]

I more naturally think of it ('All lives matter)  as an emotional or philosophical statement.

I feel it is absurd and harmful for sloganeering - especially 'language-engineered' sloganeering along the lines of 'have you stopped beating your wife yet?'  - to be promoted on a technical page ; I am also uncomfortable that an organisation with such an approach to politics is promoted on a technical page.

True, 'your gaff, your rules'. But still. 

And the header's still there.

[Axel Wagner]

I would have thought that by now we've all learned that there is nothing to be gained by having this discussion here.

I can't help it though, to point out that this thread started with an extremely apolitical message, before it got diverted.

I liked Chris's message and would thus like to amplify it :)

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Agreed on all counts.

Ian