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Isn't there a danger that go will be cancelled?
by dvh 5y ago
Isn't there a danger that go will be cancelled?
- phendrenad2 5y agoI think Go has gained enough fans that it'll survive somehow, in some form, for a long time.
- paskozdilar 5y agoNot at all, as long as Rob Pike is alive, I believe.
- johndough 5y agoRob Pike is 66 and the average male life expectancy in America is 76 years. Of course I wish him to live happily for many more years, but it would be presumptuous to expect him to work on Go for the rest of his life. But although google has killed 264 projects so far [1], I believe that Go has too many dependents at Google and in industry to cancel. And even if it should happen anyway, the community will fork it. [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- veltas 5y agoLife expectancy of a 66 year old is 83.
- johndough 5y agoI stand corrected. I also forgot to consider that Rob Pike is Canadian, which further improves his statistical chances.
- mirekrusin 5y agoMust be at least 10y more if you don’t use Java.
- gompertz 5y agoYeah... Exactly. Look at all the stuff Bell Labs came out with in the 60s and 70s that still survives today, without their involvement. Go will live on regardless.
- bitcharmer 5y agoHow can a programming language be cancelled?
- blowski 5y agoStop providing security patches, for example.
- bitcharmer 5y agoI thought golang was open source. What am I missing?
- eternityforest 5y agoYou can't literally kill a FOSS project like you can with proprietary, but it can go away if nobody else wants to maintain it. FOSS projects die all the time. You might want to write a patch here and there, but do you want to do all the DevOps, pay for hosting, manage testing, etc? Maintaining a project kinda sucks.
- nicoburns 5y agoSure, but there are enough huge companies using Go (including organisations like banks for whom a couple of developer salaries are small change) that I’m sure someone would step up to maintain it.
- astrobe_ 5y agoBy accusing it of discrimination against generic classes.
- mirekrusin 5y agoYet discriminating unions are all fine and nobody speaks up.
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