Well, at the time of Go's open source announcement, Github was 1.5 years old. Go existed before that too, looking at the dates the first whiteboard doodles abo

Well, at the time of Go's open source announcement, Github was 1.5 years old. Go existed before that too, looking at the dates the first whiteboard doodles about what would become the Go programming language were done about a month before Github development started. Yes, Github was starting to thrive when Go was announced, but you could hardly say it had proven itself as much as it has now.