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I'm curious if making go an ISO standard was ever considered.
by mempko 8y ago
I'm curious if making go an ISO standard was ever considered.
- sigjuice 8y agoWhat would be the benefits of an ISO standard? The list of programming languages with an ISO standard is pretty short https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages_with_an_ISO_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages...
- remus 8y agoGiven that go is already pretty well specified (and, perhaps more importantly, has 2 mature implementations) it's hard to see what advantages having it formally standardised would bring. https://golang.org/ref/spec https://golang.org/ref/spec
- mempko 8y agoWith Go 2, they are moving to a community run project. ISO is a process for that. I guess, why reinvent the wheel unless they think they can do substantially better.