That is a quote from the CL, not the hardware of the person you replied to. That being said, I'm pretty interested to see how this would perform on other systems, specifically production servers.
Backpack features even numbers along with 0 in positions they show up on a keypad. Interesting writing on the floss, deodorant, hair dye, perfume, and id bracelet as well
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%"
I'd say picking a platform is not, as it is definitely a critical part of your program, especially if it does not greatly increase the complexity of your code.
Here's a blog post from Rob Pike about the design philosophies inherent in Go, and how that affected adoption from C/C++ developers vs. Python, Ruby, etc.
A lot of it boils down to making it easier for developers to work with each other, rather than any technological benefit.
The less magic that happens and the more code that is commonly used by all developers, the easier it is for others to read your code and understand what it does. Rob Pike and others have some interesting talks and blog posts on this
AFAIK (although I could be wrong about this) the typical 'five' languages used at Google are not specifically for servers. I have heard they are Javascript, Java, Python, Go, and C++
I am not an expert in this, but I would say they are domain-specific. Time series databases I hear about are Prometheus[0] and InfluxDB's offerings[1], both meant specifically for monitoring something over time, hence the name.