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I am a core dev on the golang team. Teams and engineers at Google can use whichever language they want. (trade-offs abound) We're trying to make Go be the most
by bradfitz 14y ago
I am a core dev on the golang team.
Teams and engineers at Google can use whichever language they want. (trade-offs abound) We're trying to make Go be the most compelling language with the fewer trade-offs so they're willing to switch. It's getting increasingly popular.
It's possible that 50% of new code will be written in Go in a couple years, but I've never seen that written as a goal. (And we do have goals. And usage charts over time, for each language, inside and outside the company, etc.) There's no way we'll rewrite 50% of all code in a couple years... there's so much code.
- melvinmt 14y agoThanks for clarifying (can't edit my statement), the engineer I spoke to was wildly enthusiastic about Go so it may have been wishful thinking on his part. Even though it's clear now that the existing codebase won't be rewritten nearly as much, I still think it's cool that Google is considering to write 50% of all new projects in Go (if that part is still true). I'm hoping a lot of companies will follow.