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> What does it even mean for it to be "supported for years to come"? It's not a web service.

I'm pretty sure those writing and building software today would like it to build and run 6 months from now.

How exactly is it that you think a compiler works? When Google withdraws their support for the project, what do you think happens to your Go install? The Go Playground is a playground, not where you actually build and run Go code for real.

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