Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
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Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
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Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#2Well, I do have to log in with my google account to read it...
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#3Well, I do have to log in with my google account to read it...
It loads okay in an incognito window for me. Are you sure logging in was mandatory? It should only be needed if you want to post to the mailing list.
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#4A very well written piece by Ian Lance Taylor. If you don't want to read it all, he summarizes it here:
> In effect, then, the current state is what the blog post suggests at the very end: final decisions about the Go language are made by the core Go team, and the core Go team all work at Google, but there is no meaningful sense in which Google, apart from the core Go team, makes decisions about the language.
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#5Well, I do have to log in with my google account to read it...
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#6Well, I do have to log in with my google account to read it...
Golang Nuts is a public mailing list, sadly there are not a lot of mailing list archives these days.
https://www.mail-archive.com/golang-nuts@googlegroups.com/ms...
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#7A very well written piece by Ian Lance Taylor. If you don't want to read it all, he summarizes it here: > In effect, then, the current state is what the blog post suggests at the very end: final decisions about the Go language are made by the core Go team, and the core Go team all work at Google, but there is no meaningful sense in which Google, apart from the core Go team, makes decisions about the language.
> There is no meaningful sense in which Google, apart from the core Go team, makes decisions about the language.
That's like saying that there's no meaningful sense in which I, apart from my brain and nervous system, make decisions about what my body does.
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
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#9Go is perceived as Google's language because they named it "Go".
Re: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
#10Keep reading; further down the thread, Rob "Commander" Pike found it "a surprise" that Google trademarked Go. Maybe Pike feels that Go isn't Google's language, but it certainly seems that Google does indeed have a modicum of control over Go, and that that control is above and beyond the Go authors' perception.