rob pike
@robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet,
spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable
equipment while blowing up society, yet
taking the time to have your vile machines
thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
| can't remember the last time | was this
angry.
[From Al, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix 2 0B
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, | wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than
four decades. Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of
simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement,
pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today. Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is
perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their
native languages across the intemet. The sam and Acme editors showcase your
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