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No. It is much smaller team as far as resources go. Compared to Swift for Apple or Java for Oracle, Go is not strategic bet for Google. There is absolutely no d
by geodel 4y ago
No. It is much smaller team as far as resources go. Compared to Swift for Apple or Java for Oracle, Go is not strategic bet for Google. There is absolutely no dependency on Go to develop services for Google platform in it. Hell, large number of Google employees spend time on disparaging Go. It does not happen for other company sponsored languages.
- fmajid 4y agoSomeone in the Go team (rsc, IIRC) commented on how a Google executive came to him in the cafeteria to congratulate him on the launch. It turns out the executive confused him with someone on the Dart or Flutter teams.
- geodel 4y agoThanks for this anecdote! This is hilarious but seems very true to me.
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoI just hope it wasn't Rob Pike.
- fmajid 4y agoFound it: Ian Lance Taylor: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/6dKNSN0M_kg/m/EUzcym2FBAAJ https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/6dKNSN0M_kg/m/EUzc... Now a bit of personal history. The Go project was started, by Rob, Robert, and Ken, as a bottom-up project. I joined the project some 9 months later, on my own initiative, against my manager's preference. There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go (I recall a time when Google's SVP of Engineering saw some of us in the cafeteria and congratulated us on a release; this was surprising since we hadn't released anything recently, and it soon came up that he thought we were working on the Dart language, not the Go language.)