The Google hype for Go is fairly indirect: it's basically people hyping Go because it's "a language created by people at Google", as you say. Look at how the user who wrote that comment's completely star-struck -- "Go is well designed, in all apsects (sic)". It's as if he thinks it's a language straight from the Google heavens, gracing us mortals with its existence.
Re:Reasons for using Golang
by burgerbrain on Sunday June 12, 2011 @09:18AM
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If anything, Go's popularity has been driven primary by (entirely earned) Ken Thompson hype.
Seriously? Every time I heard someone mention Go, they linked it to google to make it sounds as big as possible.
Seriously! When I first started hearing about Go, it was always in the context of Ken Thompson's new language (that he wrote while working at Google).
Re:Reasons for using Golang
by burgerbrain on Sunday June 12, 2011 @12:23PM
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Yes seriously. Ken Thompson's involvement in it is mentored, often exaggerated, in just about every introduction piece I see about it.
And to be brutally honest, its the only reason I initially even gave it a glance.
Since when has Google been hyping Go? I've only come across the Go team itself talking about Go in public. The language comes across as "a language created by people at Google" much more than, "Google's language".
The feel from watching the weekly releases is that apart from the work of the (tiny) Go team, there are more patches coming from the public than from within Google.
Hype. What hype?