Heh. I was reading about the origins of Golang and how Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer were waiting 3 hours or something for a C++ build to finish. And with that much time available - might as well make a brand new language that has compilation speed as a first-class feature.

Are we doing it wrong? In the case of C++ - yes, absolutely, 100% certainly, wrong. I'm not suggesting that Chrome would be better off under Golang - I'm just saddened that 30 years after the C++ abomination was born in Stroustrup's head, nothing else has come out to challenge it.

Maybe Rust?