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This is... strange? It seems go.dev is a enterprisey marketing hub (with "Solutions" and "Case Studies" and "Testimonials"), while golang.org remains the pure,

This is... strange? It seems go.dev is a enterprisey marketing hub (with "Solutions" and "Case Studies" and "Testimonials"), while golang.org remains the pure, text-based, engineer-focused home of the language itself. I can't think of another language that splits its official web presence across separate domains like this. Rust (rust-lang.org), Python (python.org), Ruby (ruby-lang.org) all have sections dedicated to marketing/eduction (usually "Community" or "Success Stories" tabs), as well as hosting the language reference, documentation, and downloads. The result sure is confusing. Why aren't the blog and playground hosted on go.dev, for example? I can only imagine this is the result of internal politics at Google; it sure smells like the Go team engineers didn't want the growing Go marketing division to corrupt golang.org.

badrequest 7y ago
The post seems to indicate that go.dev will also have documentation the way that godoc.org has. I think this site looks much more like it would if Go were a community-run project.
- jhawk28 7y ago
  its at https://pkg.go.dev https://pkg.go.dev
pojntfx 7y ago
Honestly, this split is a great idea IMHO. Gatsby did that a while back as well. Gophers are cute, that's for sure - but a "clean" appearance like that of the new site is neat for whenever you want to pitch Go to a non-technical person. Keep the marketing teams out of documentation is what I'm trying to say.
- fauigerzigerk 7y ago
  Why does Go need marketing and what does marketing have to do with third party packages?
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ben_jones 7y ago
I'm confused as well. It seems like this website is there to sell me something in pursuit of business goals. What business goals are discussed at Google for Go's future?
Rapzid 7y ago
It's a new playground; for consultants.
nzach 7y ago
>This is... strange? It seems go.dev is a enterprisey marketing hub (with "Solutions" and "Case Studies" and "Testimonials"), while golang.org remains the pure, text-based, engineer-focused home of the language itself. Given that go.dev registrar is MarkMonitor and not Google itself I think is safe to assume this isn't an initiative led by Google.
- sagichmal 7y ago
  go.dev is in fact led and implemented by the core team at Google, though perhaps only incidentally.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Many large companies use MarkMonitor to register their domains.
- benesch 7y ago
  No, it's an official Google project. Here is the official Google announcement by a Google employee: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/OW8bHSryLIc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/OW8b...

badrequest 7y ago

The post seems to indicate that go.dev will also have documentation the way that godoc.org has. I think this site looks much more like it would if Go were a community-run project.

jhawk28 7y ago
its at https://pkg.go.dev https://pkg.go.dev

pojntfx 7y ago

Honestly, this split is a great idea IMHO. Gatsby did that a while back as well. Gophers are cute, that's for sure - but a "clean" appearance like that of the new site is neat for whenever you want to pitch Go to a non-technical person. Keep the marketing teams out of documentation is what I'm trying to say.

fauigerzigerk 7y ago
Why does Go need marketing and what does marketing have to do with third party packages?

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ben_jones 7y ago

I'm confused as well. It seems like this website is there to sell me something in pursuit of business goals. What business goals are discussed at Google for Go's future?

Rapzid 7y ago

It's a new playground; for consultants.

nzach 7y ago

>This is... strange? It seems go.dev is a enterprisey marketing hub (with "Solutions" and "Case Studies" and "Testimonials"), while golang.org remains the pure, text-based, engineer-focused home of the language itself. Given that go.dev registrar is MarkMonitor and not Google itself I think is safe to assume this isn't an initiative led by Google.

sagichmal 7y ago
go.dev is in fact led and implemented by the core team at Google, though perhaps only incidentally.
saagarjha 7y ago
Many large companies use MarkMonitor to register their domains.
benesch 7y ago
No, it's an official Google project. Here is the official Google announcement by a Google employee: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/OW8bHSryLIc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/OW8b...