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Rob Pike is not mentioned in the blogpost or in the sources the authors acknowledge as contributors to this project.

What is he up to nowadays?

He still commits code and responds to Github issues occasionally, and I think it's safe to assume that he's still participating in the internal discussions about the design. But most decisions about language changes these days are made by Russ Cox, Ian Lance Taylor, and Robert Griesemer. At least, that's the impression I'm getting.

That jives with this article I found:

https://evrone.com/rob-pike-interview

> Rob: Although it's far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially but misleadingly called generics, is coming in the next year or two. It was a very hard problem to find a design that works within the existing language and feels as if it belongs, but Ian Taylor invested a phenomenal amount of energy into the problem and it looks like the answer is now in reach.

Sounds like he took a welcomed step back. Hopefully the new leaders can deliver.

Ian Lance Taylor has been involved in the language for a long time, since 2008. Here he is talking about the built-in function append and why it shouldn't really exist in 2017

https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/559

that's pretty sad, we probably wouldn't have to deal with generics in Go 2 if he was still around :(

That's wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0WFigax_c&t=9m37s

I think he was the one to ask Phil Wadler to help out on the Featherweight Go formalization work.

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