On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 23:28:17 UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: To be clear, there is no Go 2, and there are no plans for Go 2.
Speaking as one who suffered through the ill-conceived and interminable Python3 transition, this is the best news I've heard since discovering and falling in love (well, it *is* Valentines Day) with Go a couple of years ago. Thank you! On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 2:26:37 PM UTC-5 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:43 AM 'Carla Pfaff' via golang-nuts > <golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 23:28:17 UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > >> > >> To be clear, there is no Go 2, and there are no plans for Go 2. > > > > > > For someone who follows the mailing lists and issue comments this has > been known for a while, but it's easy to see where the confusion comes > from, given these blog posts: > > > > https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2 > > https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come > > https://blog.golang.org/go2-next-steps > > > > They mention backward-compatibility, but only for the initial proposals > "to get the ball rolling". There hasn't been a blog post titled "There are > no plans for Go 2" or "Go 2 is not what you think it is" so far. The > current policy seems to be this document: > > > > "Proposal: Go 2 transition": > https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/28221-go2-transitions.md > > "If the above process works as planned, then in an important sense there > never will be a Go 2." > > > > It is labeled "Proposal", but it doesn't seem to be a proposal in the > usual proposal process sense, and many may have missed it. > > You're right, I wrote that poorly. People use "Go 2" in various > different ways. I should have said: there is no plan to ever break > backward compatibility with earlier versions of Go. > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/77ade682-6cb2-45ee-b7bd-7447d3b41a7dn%40googlegroups.com.
