On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 09:57 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > Try duckduckgo.com. I typed "dlang vs golang". Then do the same > in google. The results are worlds apart!
Indeed, but the Duck Duck Go indexing is not yet anywhere near as good as Google, though I use it a lot. > 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 think this is a somewhat unfair characterization of the history and the corporate motivations. Java Swing needed to go. JavaFX is a reasonable technology to replace it. Disclaimer, I am involved with GroovyFX. Objective-C is not becoming obsolete, it is just being superceded in the Apple walled garden. If Google dropped Go tomorrow, there would be immediate backing for new management of a fork. It is true that Go is currently, effectively, a proprietary language, but the repository is open, it is just that the committers to the mainline are all Google employees. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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