> There is a small team at Google that work on the language How many languages are lucky enough to have paid developers working on them? Many languages have b

> There is a small team at Google that work on the language How many languages are lucky enough to have paid developers working on them? Many languages have been labours of love with 1 developer getting paid, at best, pennies or doing it on the side. I think there's a reasonable middle ground where you can claim "Go made good choices, but it also wouldn't exist as it does nor be as popular without google throwing money at its developers and without the brand association" For example, the D programming language was wonderfully made and had many great features, but it never got all that far, in part because "Built by Mars" isn't as good as "Built by Google". Sure, Go didn't just win by default because google was there (Dart is a good proof that Google doesn't instantly make languages succeed), but I'm certain having their backing and name association sure didn't hurt.