So .. here's the question, given our current understanding: can Go succeed?
Generally a new technology has to have a 10x improvement over the current tech
to make it. Its just too hard to change for it to merely be good and sexy.
I've been on the Go Nuts group and found that they apparently are fairly slim
group -- I asked if Joyent/Solaris could use Go in the near future. No, they
aren't working on a port, and near-term Windows is naturally their next
platform. This indicates to me that the group is lean-and-mean.
That's fine, but suggests that Go is not getting a lot of support. So it is
not, for example, going to succeed the way Java did .. by being "better" and
having a lot of libraries being built for it. A LOT of them.
Do you see a way for Go to really succeed?
-- Owen
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