On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 1:57:58 AM UTC-5, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:37 AM, <hughag...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Google is not going to be happy if somebody uses Go to compete against > > Google. > > I think that Go is a nice language, but it's not so nice that it would > make any difference whether a Google competitor used Go or used some > other language. Google does not compete at the level of programming > language choice. >
No need for the subjunctive here. Twitch, owned by (part of?) Amazon, uses Go, and Twitch competes with some part of Youtube. Twitch has been the source of some interesting bugs that we have worked hard to fix, and some of them we're still working on. Rhys Hiltner (of Twitch) gave a nice talk on how he figured out these bugs at GopherCon earlier this year. My (work, Google-owned) laptop has a Twitch sticker on it. Beyond that, see Ian's remarks about companies being rational-mostly, and we've got some history of how other programming languages fared with open source and/or standardization. We're trying to only make new mistakes. -- 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.
