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Looks similar to Haxe (and to the language that C++/Java/Python/TypeScript/etc are converging). Now give it to google, release it as .go2, and make it friction
by bmacho 2y ago
Looks similar to Haxe (and to the language that C++/Java/Python/TypeScript/etc are converging).
Now give it to google, release it as .go2, and make it frictionless to use Go and Go2 in a codebase.
- diggan 2y ago> Now give it to google, release it as .go2, and make it frictionless to use Go and Go2 in a codebase. Has Google ever "taken" an already created project under their wing and ran with it? AFAIK, Google only does the opposite and releases projects from their grips, but never the opposite. "Everything Google does, Google must invent" is how it looks like from the outside at least.
- mkl 2y agoWebkit.
- joatmon-snoo 2y agoIf Google adopts an existing OSS technology, it usually takes the form of Google contributors joining a core team for the OSS in question. The OSS community generally isn't a fan of single companies taking _over_ a project and generally prefers ownership changes in the other direction (e.g. Kubernetes getting transferred to the CNCF). That being said, the most noticeable example here that I can think of is Google migrating its internal C++ toolchain from using gcc/g++ to clang.
- rererereferred 2y agoThey've bought and kept running many projects. YouTube, Writely (now google docs), Android to name a few.
- mst 2y agoI can't immediately find it but somebody once said something like "on a long enough timeline, all languages become CommonLispScript with different syntax" and there's definitely some truth to that.