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Rob Pike
KindPerson
Born1956
StatusAlive
Fieldoperating systems
Source9p.io ↗

Bell Labs through-line: Plan 9, UTF-8 (with Thompson, on a placemat), Inferno, then Go at Google.

Created Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go

Co-created Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, and the Inferno OS — Bell Labs' quietest giant — and co-wrote 'The Practice of Programming' with Kernighan.\n\nThe gofmt aesthetic and 'less is exponentially more' (2012 talk) are his design philosophy.

Sources

  1. 9p.io/sys/who/rob/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike