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I thought golang was open source. What am I missing?
by bitcharmer 5y ago
I 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.