I was going to be flippant and say it has been and gone. Then I read Russel's reply.
If Google are adopting Go for internal systems where it fits, do they really care about the speed or degree of public adoption? For internal use the language need only be focussed on solving Google's own problems more efficiently - in the most abstract sense. So it saves money now, or in the future (either by being a 'better' language or by allowing Google to do more with less), or it solves a significant pain point for the company, or it allows them to do things they couldn't do before. Success inside a company of that size will encourage adoption elsewhere. If it goes quiet and stays quiet - well either the benefits are so big that Google doesn't want to shout about them, or they've tried it and failed. Reminds me of some of the 'experiments' that IBM has carried out in the past - like Fagan Inspection. Entire projects were run with it to test and refine it. I worked at a company that used Fagan Inspection on one project, and then dropped it. The software quality was so high the customer cancelled the support contract. That was in the early 90's... On Sep 12, 10:40 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/12/2011 09:36 AM, Russel Winder wrote:> On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 22:31 > -0700, mP wrote: > >> Whatever happened to Go, ? > > Basically it is a done deal. Wherever Google and Canonical are and they > > can replace C, C++, Python, Perl, etc. with Go, especially in anything > > "cloudy" or "webby" they will be doing it. > > But generally speaking, is Go gaining popularity? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/group/javaposse?hl=en.
