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Nor does it convey any confidence that Google will support it.

• DashAnimal 4y ago
  Can we not with this tired joke. Yes we're talking about the company with hundreds of chat apps, but we're also talking about the 100,000+ employee company that developed and support Golang, Dart and Flutter. But ignoring all this, the GitHub page is pretty clear: "Carbon is currently an experimental project." You shouldn't have confidence that it will be supported but they are pretty clear about it, they're trying to find the right fit.
  • dleslie 4y ago
    I wasn't joking. But yes, I agree, we should have no expectation of support for experimental or beta products.
  • thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
    >> Can we not with this tired joke. . . . You shouldn't have confidence that it will be supported . . . It is not a joke. It is a reputation that Google has earned through its actions and inactions. As shown by https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ and numerous desperate posts for help [1][2][3] on this and other web sites, Google's "must launch a new shiny thing" promotion culture and abysmal customer service have eroded public trust in the long-term viability of anything that Google creates. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5523992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5523992 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145927 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837795
    • TJSomething 4y ago
      The only comparable thing to an open source programming language on that list is AngularJS, and I wouldn't say that was killed but superceded by Angular 2 (which is also a lot better).
      • riku_iki 4y ago
        there was GWT.
        • skybrian 4y ago
          Looks like the GWT community just released a new version in June.
• mda 4y ago
  Looking at other languages Google developed and continued supporting, this comment is a bit unfair.