On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:07:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >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.
You are aware that Google helps fund Firefox (through their agreement to be the default search engine)? >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. And the community would simply ignore the standard - standards only have meaning if the community agrees that they do. >Even if there is an open-source version of Go that works well, it would >likely die out for lack of interest. As previously mentioned, there is far too much code (and hence business) running on Go now for it to die off. >Being the Standard (with a capital 'S') carries a lot of weight. No it doesn't. Market share carries far more influence than a standard, and the vast amount of Go software already written means the existing version of Go is the "standard" regardless of what any official body may say. -- 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.
