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The “Go is successful because of Google” is really wearing thin. For this to have any credibility we would have had to see the same effect on any of Angular, Po
by sudhirj 8y ago
The “Go is successful because of Google” is really wearing thin. For this to have any credibility we would have had to see the same effect on any of Angular, Polymer, Dart, Flutter, GWT and whatever else Google put their weight behind that we’ve already forgotten.
- smt88 8y agoOf all those things, Google only really put their weight behind Angular, and Angular 1 was incredibly popular for a while. I still frequently see it in the job postings of other companies. I doubt Go is only successful because of Google, but a large corporate sponsor seems to make or break most languages.
- pjmlp 8y agoAngular is widely successful in the enterprise, being the JavaScript framework mostly adopted by Java and .NET developers. Dart hardly had any major Google backing, it looked like a way to keep some well known VM researchers busy, which were rescued by the AdWords team before the project kind of folded. Flutter looks like some of those developers trying to find a killer application for Dart, while being allowed some air time on Google's conferences, while Google management is full speed on Android and Web stacks. Polymer has never about the framework, rather a way to push WebComponents as sane way to do web development, which up to HTML Templates they have been quite successful regarding adoption across browsers.