What’s really funny, is that within Google, I don’t think Go was really given much priority for a while. I sure get the picture that the Go team was just smart

What’s really funny, is that within Google, I don’t think Go was really given much priority for a while. I sure get the picture that the Go team was just smart and trusted, but the project was more of some internal thing. Basically, the point being, it was Google _developers_ that made the “backing” grow via demand, not some official “initiative”. Initially, this gave me some initial trepidation, but Go has gotten more and more outside engagement each year it’s existed, which is definitely making things just better. Thus, I don’t really think Google has “backed it” like Sun backed Java. It’s just that Google hires lots of smart people, and those smart people backed it. I’d say Dart is more of an official “google backed” tech. Go is like the language that is succeeding despite their management objectives.