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Remember Unladen Swallow? It was open source. It had non-Google contributors. It was going to be the future of Python. Google was a heavy Python user and needed

Remember Unladen Swallow? It was open source. It had non-Google contributors. It was going to be the future of Python. Google was a heavy Python user and needed Unladen Swallow to succeed. It had a specific, ambitious goal. And then it just fizzled out because Google reassigned its people. Will Go survive (and thrive) if Google pulled its support?

zellyn 14y ago
Unladen Swallow never released a version 1, let alone 1.1. Also, clearly, Google did did not _need_ Unladen Swallow to succeed...
jesstaa 14y ago
Unladen swallow fizzled out because it was tackling a problem that was theoretically difficult and they weren't having much luck with it.