Kelsey Hightower

Two things.

I'm sitting in the audience waiting for my turn.

I'm number four on the list or something like this.

And the two people who started GopherCon, they're just from the community, Brian Kettleston and Eric St.

Martin.

And they're new to this conference scene.

Like you could tell, right?

You know, they weren't the best emcees in the world, but they were like, hey, welcome to GopherCon.

And at the point in time, Ruby is still dominating.

And down the street, there was a Ruby conference going on.

And we were just in this other building, and I remember the first talk, they introduced Rob Pike, and he gave this amazing keynote around Hello World.

He went up all the way down to the compiler, he went all the way up, and he described how the language took shape.

It felt simple on the surface, but it went super deep.

And it's like Rob Pike had also come full circle from his AT&T days, through Unicode, through all the stuff that he's ever done, and now we get to see one of his best works, Golang.

And my talk was titled Golang for System Administrators.

I wanted them to see that there's a better way.

The way they introduced Rob Pike, I was like, oh, man, this is Rob Pike.

You got to have more energy than that for Rob Pike.

So I'm sitting in my chair and I don't know them, but I'm sitting with a buddy of mine from that company where we rewrote everything in Golang, Billy Cleek.

We're sitting next to him.