They didn't hype Go either. All "hype" Go has is team members and community members writing blog posts and giving talks. Even the web page is designed by the Go guys themselves.

Can you point me to any evidence that Google ever "hyped" Go ???? Like some kind of company announcement by Larry Paige? What language (any???) has Google every hyped? They hype products, that's it.

Not only that, but there's less than 6 people probably in Google who work "full time" on it. For the vast majority of other Google employees it's a "20%" project. More and more of the pie is being worked on by the community, not the core Google team.

I know you hate Go, I realize that, but other people like it, and it's not because "The Great and Almighty Google" is shoving it down our throats?

I hate PHP with a passion for example, but I don't think there's a vast conspiracy to see it still being pushed around?