Go is open source and I'm wondering how many of the successful languages are open source.
Go seems to be designed well for multiple core situations, so it may take off as cloud computing does. Go might lower the development costs for huge projects if the right Go team can exploit the language's simplicity to save time. At this point, I think the best languages are the ones that have large communities and libraries - assets that Go does not have. Tyler On Jul 25, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Santa Fe Complex > "discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/sfcomplex.org/group/discuss ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
