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I haven't noticed these "little announcements" coming "regularly". Which have you noticed?

Vitess, for YouTube, was announced on Feb 28th.

I also disagree with the idea that this is "marketing". Google have made (and are continuing to make) Go as a replacement for the languages they currently use. They're scratching their own itch.

Finally, I disagree that this is a major differentiator between Go and D. Neither of them push marketing, relying on the enthusiasm of their community to spread the language. They are completely different designs and have very different goals (as noted by others). I do not think that Go will win because of Google's ability to market it.

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I do believe marketing has something to do with it. I don't believe a random Google employee is allowed to disclose stuff about their infra permission is granted. This is not a bad thing mind you. Google is merely trying to win minds in the most friendly way possible.

Neither did I said that this was a 'major' differentiator between Go and D. Just 'a' differentiator and not a major one at that.

I have become slightly myopic with regard to the little announcements. I'm confusing it with announcements like Bitly's: http://word.bitly.com/post/29550171827/go-go-gadget or Cloudflare's: http://blog.cloudflare.com/cacheing-the-uncacheable-cloudfla.... But the point still stands, I see more of these posts related to Go than posts related to D (or Clojure/Scala/Rust/...).

There's less bureaucracy than you imagine. I asked a couple coworkers from the Go and Downloads team, "hey, should I post about this?" and they were like, "yeah, go for it."

But yes, it's kinda marketing because I love Go (which is why I joined the Go team), and I wanted to spread my happiness and want to see other people use Go.

But the Official Google Marketing Department was not involved. We don't have any fancy videos like Chrome. Just me emailing.

  > We don't have any fancy videos like Chrome. Just me emailing.

Does it count if I thought of dancing gophers while reading it?

> I also disagree with the idea that this is "marketing".

Yes, it's more the opposite: they were constantly requested for proof of their dogfooding and they always replied that they can't due to "confidentiality reasons".

Yeah, it is like Google has multiple personalities sometimes.

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