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Agree about Go and Google. With Google at your back, the question changes to how could you possibly fail? Not to say it's impossible, but is to say it's quite
by Tozen 4y ago
Agree about Go and Google. With Google at your back, the question changes to how could you possibly fail? Not to say it's impossible, but is to say it's quite hard to do.
- geodel 4y agoTrue. That's why I have never ever seen any failed product that is launched by Google.
- randomdata 4y agoI don't agree. Go being created by the Bell Labs legends, the same people who fathered C, Unix, UTF-8, Plan 9, etc., was what caught attention. Google's involvement was downplayed, and, in fact, at the time Google people were all like "We don't use Go or even like it."
- Tozen 4y agoI don't totally disagree with your point. Ken Thompson is a legend, by himself. However, neither he nor the other creators made their own language, without backing. We will likely never know if by themselves, the Go creators would of had a hit. Even when it comes to talking about a legend like Ken Thompson, he still was working at Bell Labs (AT&T), and had that huge company behind his work. Go was created at Google, and prominent among the language's goals, is that it serves their purposes.