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I read somewhere on mailing list that there are about ~30 people inside Google working full time on Go. And that is different from engineers working on products
by geodel 7y ago
I read somewhere on mailing list that there are about ~30 people inside Google working full time on Go. And that is different from engineers working on products built using Go.
With infrastructure cost added it would be easily $10 million a year.
So these Linkedin/Twitter style thought leaders demanding some kinda OpenGo foundation need to ask if they have capacity to raise this amount consistently over years to start and run this foundation.
- smt88 7y agoA foundation doesn't need to replace all the corporate money. At minimum, it's a guarantee that the language will be maintained if/when the corporate entity loses interest. Maintaining a language is not nearly as cumbersome as improving it. At best, a foundation is also going to provide more neutral governance, as well as a nexus for multiple corporations to work on the language together. Other companies are more likely to adopt Go if they see it as not just a Google project. I personally don't care whether my favorite languages have a foundation, as long as they're used for large projects by large companies. That alone is a good guarantee that they'll stick around.
- harimau777 7y agoWould it be viable to setup some sort of trust at the beginning so that it wasn't necessary to raise that money repeatedly?
- mrunkel 7y agoSure, but that means raising 10x+ since you'd really want the trust to be untouched and just have the foundation run off the interest.