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"Why don’t I just use Google’s thing? "-You think that’s going to be around in 6 months?" Isn't reputation a thing of beauty?
by robteix 10y ago
"Why don’t I just use Google’s thing?
"-You think that’s going to be around in 6 months?"
Isn't reputation a thing of beauty?
- reitoei 10y agoSeriously though, this is why I'm afraid to use something like Firebase now.
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- droidist2 10y agoSo true. Why people often use "it's backed by Google" as an argument in favor of anything is beyond me.
- driusan 10y ago"it's backed by Google" is the reason I avoided Go for years and is still the only reason I'm nervous using it.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoIf it's free software it won't just disappear. If it's proprietary and hosted by an org that isn't making real money from it, that's a different story....
- flukus 10y agoIs the development open though (serious question, I don't know how they do it with go)? Look at android, it's a closed project that the occasionally release some source code for. If google decided to drop android then it's a critical blow because there isn't much of a community around it.
- driusan 10y agoIt depends what you mean by "open." Anyone can subscribe to the go-codereview mailing list. Anyone can submit a patch, but you need to a) use gerrit and b) sign a (digital) contribitors license agreement with Google. It's "open", but it would almost certainly collapse entirely if Google decided to drop support for it. (There's no sign that they'll do that, but it's not a risk you take with a language like C.)
- emn13 10y agoEven by the most lax standard you couldn't call the app store open; and that's kind of what's being shuttered here. The technology wasn't ever particularly interesting (not a bad thing), but the distribution model was. And that's entirely closed - they're not about to give anyone else permission to run even parts of the app store to anyone else, and that's that.
- gizzlon 10y agoHasn't App Engine been around for more than 4 years by now?
- pbiggar 10y agoFunnily enough, I don't think this is a real concern. It's the stereotype, which is why I said it, but Google believes it will make as much money off cloud as from ads, so I wouldn't expect anything to get shut down.