Go began as a 20% project, and grew into a full-time project. There are now a handful of Google engineers working on Go. It is not part of some over-arching cor

Go began as a 20% project, and grew into a full-time project. There are now a handful of Google engineers working on Go. It is not part of some over-arching corporate strategy (that I'm aware of), except tangentially in that Google seeks to improve the software development ecosystem globally. From the engineering resources given to the project, it would seem Google is committed to making it a success. It grew out of scratching some itches of C++ (cumbersome and error-prone concurrency, unnecessary complexity, monstrous build times). The interest from the dynamic language camp has been something of a surprise, although not an unpleasant one.