Google is committed to Go. We already run a bunch of stuff written in Go, and continue to throw more engineers at improving the Go ecosystem inside the company.

Google is committed to Go. We already run a bunch of stuff written in Go, and continue to throw more engineers at improving the Go ecosystem inside the company. But Google's relationship with Go is not the same as Sun's was with Java. Sun made Java a core part of their business strategy. With Go, Google isn't getting into the language business, but rather supporting an ambitious open source project that suits Google's needs internally. As an open source project, Go has been quite successful so far. While the main driving force comes from the team at Google (we are employed to do this, after all), there are now more committers to the Go core from outside Google than within.