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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by donmcronald on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:01PM (#25242021)
> Sure Go is near exclusively "incubated" by Google, they employ much of the core development team, but there is nothing preventing any organization from contributing to it.

Except if the majority of the expertise is held by Google employees it's extremely difficult to do anything without their support. What if Google decides to drop Go tomorrow? A lot of the expertise disappears with that decision and replacing it would require another company to step up and dump gobs of money into the project.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by bsg75 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:30PM (#25246919)
> What if Google decides to drop Go tomorrow?

The community can fork the code and continue.

If that did not happen, or the community does not believe that is viable, then the languages is not viable.

Google’s theoretical abandonment of the language does not seem to bother the multiple successful projects based on it. Nor does the lack of apparent focus in Rust’s founder affect its growing user base.

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