Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success
by pmoriarty on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:15PM
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"I don't really think Google has "backed it" like Sun backed Java."
It doesn't have to. For a lot of programmers the very fact that Google (or Rob Pike) made it is enough for them to switch to it or bet that it'll do well and at least take a closer look and try it out, compared to the dozens or hundreds of new languages that come out by completely unknown authors which virtually no one takes a second look at, not because of any deficiencies in those languages since the people that ignore them usually don't even know anything about those languages to begin with.
It doesn't have to. For a lot of programmers the very fact that Google (or Rob Pike) made it is enough for them to switch to it or bet that it'll do well and at least take a closer look and try it out, compared to the dozens or hundreds of new languages that come out by completely unknown authors which virtually no one takes a second look at, not because of any deficiencies in those languages since the people that ignore them usually don't even know anything about those languages to begin with.