On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 09:57:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
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).
Isn't swing open source?
