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Leaving Google


’ve left Google after working there for 19 years. For most of that time I’ve been fortunate in being able to work on the Go programming language.

That is far beyond what any of us expected in the early days, when our best hope was that Go might serve as an example for useful ideas that other languages and programming environments could adopt. In general my self-appointed role on the Go team consisted of tracking everything I could about the project and looking for areas that needed help. Among other things in the earlier years I added Go support to Google’s internal build system, and to the SWIG tool.

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