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> And that may be a risk. How is it a risk? Is Rust at risk because of Mozilla? What about Java given all its corporate sponsors? People need to stop with thi
by tomnipotent 7y ago
> And that may be a risk.
How is it a risk? Is Rust at risk because of Mozilla? What about Java given all its corporate sponsors?
People need to stop with this predictive FUD crap, it's tiring.
- hu3 7y agoIt's mesmerizing to observe the lengths that people can go when trying to smear an open-source tool. I can't even fathom the amount of relentless bullshit that teams of big projects have to endure.
- mr_tristan 7y agoIt _might_ be an institutional risk for people, who are evaluating tooling, to just decide that they don't see other major companies getting involved, see a bunch of gripes about the module system switcheroo, and decide "nah". You really get a sense of "this is Google's approach" with the go toolchain, because it's pretty unique. One of the first documents, "How to Write Go Code", sets up a workspace that doesn't clearly integrate in with any other toolchain I'm aware of. So, just by reading about the ecosystem, it's not clear who is really investing in it, and, you have a single, unique approach to tooling apparently dominating. I just wonder if these arguments would be mitigated if Go ever got the investment in "developer relations" that other Google projects get, with some better onboarding documentation.
- leshow 7y agoRust isn't really a fair comparison, not anymore anyway, it's very much a community led project.