I don't know man. I feel like there are places I know more than Rob Pike almost certainly. Like, I don't know, most of functional programming. I seriously doubt he knows what indexed monads are better than me.
So, at the point they were creating Go, I think it's perfectly reasonable they had even less exposure to fp, and didn't actually know about these better solutions.
So, at the point they were creating Go, I think it's perfectly reasonable they had even less exposure to fp, and didn't actually know about these better solutions.