GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a walkthrough of how Go's design evolved and where its ideas originated.
What it is
Rob Pike opens GopherCon 2014 with a keynote on the design and evolution of Go. He covers where its ideas came from, including the origin of hello world.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2015.
What Hacker News said
Recommends erikstmartin · 2014-11 · on “Half a decade with Go”
Rob Pike's keynote at GopherCon 2014 does a great walkthrough of the evolution of the design of the language, where ideas were borrowed from and why: [this video]
Cites iends · 2014-07 · on “Ask HN: When was the first usage of “Hello, world”?”
In Rob Pike's opening keynote at GopherCon, Rob attributes the first hello world to Brian Kernighan written in B in 1972. Source: [this video] (minute 2 to 3 it's discussed)
Cites tuckermi · 2015-07 · on “Russ Cox Keynote – GopherCon 2015 liveblog”
Past keynotes have been posted on youtube[1], so I suspect you will be able to watch it soon! [1] Rob Pike's opening keynote from last year is available here: [this video]