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Speaking just for one, I haven't adopted a new Google consumer product in 7 years. I don't even click the links. Pretty sure Reader had that effect on a large

Speaking just for one, I haven't adopted a new Google consumer product in 7 years. I don't even click the links. Pretty sure Reader had that effect on a large chunk of the technical base they previously relied heavily on.

indy 7y ago
Shutting down Reader really did an oversized amount of damage to Google's reputation. I always found it surprising that Google wouldn't devote the engineering resources just to maintain Reader and not upset the influential people who relied upon it.
- misterman0 7y ago
  No one is more influential than Google. - Google
guggle 7y ago
Indeed... I don't even consider using their development tools now.
- ancarda 7y ago
  Just the other day I met a guy who told me he wouldn't consider learning and using Go because Google will cancel it eventually What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)
  - untog 7y ago
    That doesn't really make sense, though. Go is entirely open source. If Google dropped it tomorrow there are more than enough non-Google people invested in it to continue development.
    - lostmsu 7y ago
      Maybe, but how many of them are compiler engineers? Go does not strike me as a language, that a compiler engineer would love.
      - sdenton4 7y ago
        Eh, if google cancelled go, there's a good chance a bunch of go compiler engineers would move to other companies using go...
    - int_19h 7y ago
      It would continue development, but how popular would it remain without Google blessing?
  - zelly 7y ago
    Very reasonable concern. I like Go, but it's not sufficiently better than its competitors (Java/C#) to be professionally maintained or adopted. Then there's the huge chunk of people who use it just because of the Google halo effect. My guess, Go and its ecosystem would end up floundering like other ex-corporate languages like Object Pascal or Objective-C. Even more so if Google abandons Go because they made a brand new replacement.

indy 7y ago

Shutting down Reader really did an oversized amount of damage to Google's reputation. I always found it surprising that Google wouldn't devote the engineering resources just to maintain Reader and not upset the influential people who relied upon it.

misterman0 7y ago
No one is more influential than Google. - Google

guggle 7y ago

Indeed... I don't even consider using their development tools now.

ancarda 7y ago
Just the other day I met a guy who told me he wouldn't consider learning and using Go because Google will cancel it eventually What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)
- untog 7y ago
  That doesn't really make sense, though. Go is entirely open source. If Google dropped it tomorrow there are more than enough non-Google people invested in it to continue development.
  - lostmsu 7y ago
    Maybe, but how many of them are compiler engineers? Go does not strike me as a language, that a compiler engineer would love.
    - sdenton4 7y ago
      Eh, if google cancelled go, there's a good chance a bunch of go compiler engineers would move to other companies using go...
  - int_19h 7y ago
    It would continue development, but how popular would it remain without Google blessing?
- zelly 7y ago
  Very reasonable concern. I like Go, but it's not sufficiently better than its competitors (Java/C#) to be professionally maintained or adopted. Then there's the huge chunk of people who use it just because of the Google halo effect. My guess, Go and its ecosystem would end up floundering like other ex-corporate languages like Object Pascal or Objective-C. Even more so if Google abandons Go because they made a brand new replacement.