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Go is not gaining enough traction, while Scala takes off. GAE is losing steam, while AWS takes off. I guess it was about time for Google to make yet another a
by wavephorm 15y ago
Go is not gaining enough traction, while Scala takes off. GAE is losing steam, while AWS takes off. I guess it was about time for Google to make yet another attempt to remain relevant.
- lightcatcher 15y agoI'm not too familiar with the Go ecosystem, but does Google really have anything to gain if Go becomes wildly popular?
- forgotusername 15y agoA non-crappy language to build internal systems? There's a strong culture of NIH at Google, so I doubt there is any sneaky hidden strategy in their opening Go: they get widespread peer review and the chance to prime candidates on the language before they ever reach the hiring process. I guess even that is justification enough.
- shuzchen 15y agoI have a hard time attributing a new language coming out of Google as NIH syndrome. If you take a look at some of the people employed at the big G (Gosling, Kernighan, Pike, Guido, Thompson, etc.) who were responsible for creating and nurturing some very big languages being used today, I would be surprised if new languages weren't being created.
- hvs 15y agoA little perspective is in order here: Go appeared in 2009 Scala appeared in 2003 For more perspective, Ruby appeared in 1995 and Python in 1991, and yet those just became really popular in the past 5-10 years. It takes a while for languages to gain maturity. Go wasn't going to "take off" after two years.