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Rob Pike literally wrote that, as the OP points out.

What part of "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative" isn't clear enough?



Nothing about that implies re-writing legacy code.


Neither does this remark

> I feel like languages like Go and Rust didn’t become C++ killers because they expected everyone to jump on the bandwagon and abandon all their legacy code

Abandon is not a synonymous with rewrite, last time I checked a dictionary.




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