On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 09:57:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 20:31:55 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 11.08.2014 19:40, schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:23:19 +0100
Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]>
wrote:
Google definitely try to push Go :-)
so you mean that Go can't walk on it's own and needs to be
constantly
pushed by Google so other people will think that it's alive?
heh.
Yes, just look to the previous incarnations of Go (Alef,
Limbo, Oberon 2).
What is actually happening is the Rails, NodeJS hipsters now
found a new toy, just because it has the Google stamp on it.
--
Paulo
Try duckduckgo.com. I typed "dlang vs golang". Then do the same
in google. The results are worlds apart!
What happens, if one day Google says that they will abandon Go,
cos it didn't bring the desired results? Just like companies
tend to abandon languages and frameworks at random. Remember
Google translate? Java Swing is to be replaced by JavaFX. Now
Objective-C is becoming obsolete. There are loads of examples.
People flock to technologies backed by big companies, because
they think it's safer to do so. But again and again, companies
just drop technologies as they see fit. Open source has been
more reliable. Most frameworks still exist (think of all the
Linux stuff).
I can think of very few successful programming languages in the
market without corporate backing.
Even standard ECMA/ANSI/ISO ones, where at a given point in time,
corporate languages.
--
Paulo
