Rob Pike is 66 and the average male life expectancy in America is 76 years. Of course I wish him to live happily for many more years, but it would be presumptuous to expect him to work on Go for the rest of his life.

But although google has killed 264 projects so far [1], I believe that Go has too many dependents at Google and in industry to cancel. And even if it should happen anyway, the community will fork it.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

Life expectancy of a 66 year old is 83.

I stand corrected. I also forgot to consider that Rob Pike is Canadian, which further improves his statistical chances.

Must be at least 10y more if you don’t use Java.

Yeah... Exactly. Look at all the stuff Bell Labs came out with in the 60s and 70s that still survives today, without their involvement. Go will live on regardless.