> The original purpose of open sourcing Go was different for Google (make the language more robust/better) I'm not so sure about that. I like the 'baseball cap

> The original purpose of open sourcing Go was different for Google (make the language more robust/better) I'm not so sure about that. I like the 'baseball cap' argument more. The quote is about React, but it may be relevant for Go as well > Facebook doesn't care if you use the Web, it only cares that you use Facebook. > So why release an open source Web framework at all? Because Facebook is battling Google for engineers. So you've got a big fight between two companies over which company is the coolest place to work, and both of them are companies that your grandparents love. How are you going to win this fight? One way is to have the hippest Web framework. > Basically, both Google and Facebook are desperate to find a baseball cap that they can put on backwards. Angular is Google's baseball cap. React is Facebook's. https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea