I don't think that this is a productive thread. I'll just make a few points for the record.
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:07 PM, <hughaguila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Did Go or Rust come first? Graydon started working on Rust first, but Go was announced publicly first. At the time that the Go project started within Google, I don't think that anybody outside of Mozilla had heard of Rust. I could be misremembering, though. > I'll bet if Mozilla had used Go to write FireFox, rather than invent their > own language, Google would have done something to stop them. I am absolutely certain that this would not have happened. > Also, Go could be used to write an OS that is secure from NSA snooping. > According to Edward Snowden, Google makes money from the NSA --- and money > talks! Citation needed. > By proprietary I didn't necessarily mean closed-source. > I just meant that Google declares a crippleware version of Go to be the > Standard --- possibly pushing it through ANSI so it is written in stone. To what purpose? Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
