Rob Pike
Person on 3 sites
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
-
2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-11-01 -
8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
-
A small software package with good intentions can accumulate so many dependents and dependencies that it becomes a vector for bloat and malfeasance. (opens korrents.com)
“a small package with good intentions can accumulate both a large set of dependents and a large set of dependencies, turning it into a vector for bloat and malfeasance.”
-
Engineers commonly confuse a solution with the problem it is meant to solve. (opens korrents.com)
“It's a mistake common to engineers everywhere to confuse the solution and the problem like this.”
-
Concurrent code only becomes faster from parallelization when the underlying problem is itself intrinsically parallel. (opens korrents.com)
“Concurrent code only goes faster when parallelized if the underlying problem is intrinsically parallel, like serving HTTP requests.”
-
A small software package with good intentions can accumulate so many dependents and dependencies that it becomes a vector for bloat and malfeasance. (opens korrents.com)
-
4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
-
MacBook Air (11-inch) (opens rcmnd.app)
“my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can’t remember when. For what it does, as opposed to what my dream setup would be, it’s fast and light and smooth and…”
-
Go (opens rcmnd.app)
“However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.”
-
plan9port (opens rcmnd.app)
“However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.”
-
MacBook Air (11-inch) (opens rcmnd.app)