There is a tragicomic story that I think is related to this question. Quote from Ian Lance Taylor (Google Principal Engineer) "Now a bit of personal history.

There is a tragicomic story that I think is related to this question. Quote from Ian Lance Taylor (Google Principal Engineer) "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.)" https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/6dKNSN0M_kg/m/EUzcym2FBAAJ https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/6dKNSN0M_kg/m/EUzc...