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Absolutely not. It is one thing to create a language and maontain it and another to hire someone who created a language some years ago.

• joemi 7y ago
  from the post: > There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go
  • objektif 7y ago
    That is a ver very strong assumption. Just because Google did not explicitly have a ‘GO’ team does not mean they did not support it. I assume Google became aware of it the moment their employees started using it for something useful. People have bosses who have bosses. At whoch point they decided to let their employees continue working on it.
    • emmelaich 7y ago
      Go exists because Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and others are allowed the latitude to make it. You can be sure that whatever they do gets a high profile without it in any way being "supported" or "official"