I'm not sure what he meant by "brilliant language", but he was working in C++ and was frustrated with it when he decided to create Go.
> Back around September 2007, I was doing some minor but central work on an enormous Google C++ program
> I actually tried and failed to find a way to bring the ideas to C++
> Some were very subtle and hard to understand, like rvalue references, while others are especially C++-like, such as variadic templates, and some others are just crazy, like user-defined literals.
> Back around September 2007, I was doing some minor but central work on an enormous Google C++ program
> I actually tried and failed to find a way to bring the ideas to C++
> Some were very subtle and hard to understand, like rvalue references, while others are especially C++-like, such as variadic templates, and some others are just crazy, like user-defined literals.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...