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Welcome to the 71st issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about the Go programming language. In this edition, we provide context to the meteoric ascension of Go in the programming world; in the Library section, we review the work and legacy of Sir C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch four videos by Rob Pike.
Younger generations of software developers, including those who started their career during the _Bonanza_ of zero-interest money and pre-pandemic times of the 2010s, might be sadly oblivious of one of the major changes in the programming world of the latest 20 years: the transition from single-core CPUs to multicore ones.
This is the story of four videos by Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go programming language, each marking important milestones throughout the past 15 years: from the introduction of the language to the world in 2009, to its time of meteoric growth during 2012 and 2015, and finally to a review of the first 14 years of existence in 2023.
It would be unwise and useless to try to summarize in a thousand words the immense contributions of Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, also known as Tony Hoare (I suppose we are all good friends in this industry) or, with a more Tolkien feeling, as C. A. R. Hoare. I will settle for “Sir Tony Hoare” in this article; familiar yet respectful enough.