>>apta+(OP)
"So Rob Pike is basically saying that the developers at Google aren’t very good so they’ve developed a dumbed down language so they can get things done."
I read the Pike quote very differently. When Pike says: "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers." I thought he meant programmers today use google to assist them in programming.
>>keithb+b3
"Googler" means "someone who works at Google". He's saying the language is designed for people who are in large, transient teams building large-scale production systems, not people who want to explore advanced programming language concepts.