> Everyone's upset that Go is Google's language, but no one would have adopted it if it weren't. Brand recognition is not that important for programming langua

> Everyone's upset that Go is Google's language, but no one would have adopted it if it weren't. Brand recognition is not that important for programming languages. It does skew decisions a bit, but people still have to make too many of them when moving to another programming language, so the effect is not that significant. Go just happened to hit all the right spots for many programmers at the time and a bit of marketing turned that into some adoption.