Re:The Go Programming Language turns two
by enneff on Friday November 11, 2011 @07:26PM
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I have answered your statement about App Engine in another post.
As for Android, it would be a colossal undertaking to implement native support for writing Android apps in Go. How can you say it's "half-hearted" to choose not to do such a massive project? Engineering time is not an infinite resource.
Unfortunately it is Google's policy not to comment on internal infrastructure, otherwise I could comment more on our internal usage of Go. But think logically: why would Google continue to invest the time of some of its best engineers (myself excluded) in something that wasn't of benefit to Google?
As for Android, it would be a colossal undertaking to implement native support for writing Android apps in Go. How can you say it's "half-hearted" to choose not to do such a massive project? Engineering time is not an infinite resource.
Unfortunately it is Google's policy not to comment on internal infrastructure, otherwise I could comment more on our internal usage of Go. But think logically: why would Google continue to invest the time of some of its best engineers (myself excluded) in something that wasn't of benefit to Google?