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I thought Go was created to be the primary language for new Googlers. Did that never turn out to be the case? Are there many Google projects written in Go? Kube

• anonfunction 9y ago
  Downloads are powered by Go, which was a huge port from C++. https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide
  • coldtea 9y ago
    That's a single project, and one of the 2 adoption stories circulating in 2012/3, 4+ years ago (the other was a MySQL load balancer for YouTube or such). I'm pretty sure there is quite more stuff now, but those known are not much to write home about. Even downloads is not some "huge port" -- the presentation mentions "14,032" lines.
    • vram22 9y ago
      >the other was a MySQL load balancer for YouTube or such It was Vitesse: http://vitess.io/overview/ http://vitess.io/overview/ https://github.com/youtube/vitess https://github.com/youtube/vitess
    • anonfunction 9y ago
      > That's a single project, and one of the 2 adoption stories circulating in 2012/3, 4+ years ago (the other was a MySQL load balancer for YouTube or such). The parent comment was asking about projects so I presented one that sprung to mind. > Even downloads is not some "huge port" -- the presentation mentions "14,032" lines. Yes, it mentions "39 files (14,032 lines) deleted" which is not small in my mind. Not to mention they heavily leveraged the standard library and some other projects like groupcache.