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> Perhaps because they don't want to incur technical debt to a language/runtime that could change at the whim of one company that probably doesn't have other co

• kijin 8y ago
  Go has been well received outside of Google. Wikipedia even has a list of companies known to use Go. I'm not sure how up to date it is, but the list includes Cloudflare and Netflix. At least some of them might have the oomph to fork, take over, or otherwise influence Go if Google ever dropped the ball. Meanwhile, I can't think of any major online service that relies on Hack apart from Facebook and its subsidiaries.
  • pushtheenvelope 8y ago
    Slack does. But I agree with the original point about not fully relying on the whims of a major corporate promoter. Priorities can change within, without clear visibility on the outside.