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I think the language features are neat but who wants to be beholden to google and no one else. We're not even sure how much they use Go, just leave it to them I
by gauravk92 15y ago
I think the language features are neat but who wants to be beholden to google and no one else. We're not even sure how much they use Go, just leave it to them I say.
- enneff 15y agoGo is an entirely open source project with more than 200 contributors from outside Google. If you use Go you are not beholden to anyone. Go is free. As for Go's use at Google, Go already powers some of our core infrastructure. For example, the YouTube team recently published one of their core services as an open source project: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ http://code.google.com/p/vitess/
- Homunculiheaded 15y agoYou could have said the same thing about C and AT&T Bell Labs.
- BarkMore 15y agoIn addition to being free as enneff points out, the implementation is small enough that a group of outsiders can reasonably pick up the language and carry it forward without the benefit of Google's institutional knowledge.
- luriel 15y agoAnd the language itself is simple and small enough that a full-re-implementation is quite feasible.