3 ms·

I think Googles good will in recent years is the problem. I think Rust is better divorced from Mozilla, and Go would be better if it was divorced a bit from Go

I think Googles good will in recent years is the problem. I think Rust is better divorced from Mozilla, and Go would be better if it was divorced a bit from Google for a lot of the same reasons.

arp242 2y ago
> I think Googles good will in recent years is the problem. I don't really follow what you mean with that. People keep going on that Big Tech needs to invest more in open source projects and maintainership. "But no, not like that!" Hmkay... In the end, the people doing the work get to decide. That's how it works everywhere. Go originated at Google and many (though far from all) of the core people working on it are still paid by Google. The people doing the work seem to have no problem with this relationship, so standing on the sidelines shouting "no no, do the work differently!" is not really brilliant IMO. And as I said, I don't see Google "controlling" anything. What does that even mean? Larry Page deciding what happens in the next Go release or something?