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Isn't there a danger that go will be cancelled?

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I think Go has gained enough fans that it'll survive somehow, in some form, for a long time.

How can a programming language be cancelled?

By accusing it of discrimination against generic classes.

Yet discriminating unions are all fine and nobody speaks up.

Gold

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Perl the wise?

Lmfao

Stop providing security patches, for example.

I thought golang was open source. What am I missing?

You can't literally kill a FOSS project like you can with proprietary, but it can go away if nobody else wants to maintain it.

FOSS projects die all the time. You might want to write a patch here and there, but do you want to do all the DevOps, pay for hosting, manage testing, etc?

Maintaining a project kinda sucks.

Sure, but there are enough huge companies using Go (including organisations like banks for whom a couple of developer salaries are small change) that I’m sure someone would step up to maintain it.

Not at all, as long as Rob Pike is alive, I believe.

Rob Pike is 66 and the average male life expectancy in America is 76 years. Of course I wish him to live happily for many more years, but it would be presumptuous to expect him to work on Go for the rest of his life.

But although google has killed 264 projects so far [1], I believe that Go has too many dependents at Google and in industry to cancel. And even if it should happen anyway, the community will fork it.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

Life expectancy of a 66 year old is 83.

I stand corrected. I also forgot to consider that Rob Pike is Canadian, which further improves his statistical chances.

Must be at least 10y more if you don’t use Java.

Yeah... Exactly. Look at all the stuff Bell Labs came out with in the 60s and 70s that still survives today, without their involvement. Go will live on regardless.

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