Just the other day I met a guy who told me he wouldn't consider learning and using Go because Google will cancel it eventually
What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)
Very reasonable concern. I like Go, but it's not sufficiently better than its competitors (Java/C#) to be professionally maintained or adopted. Then there's the huge chunk of people who use it just because of the Google halo effect. My guess, Go and its ecosystem would end up floundering like other ex-corporate languages like Object Pascal or Objective-C. Even more so if Google abandons Go because they made a brand new replacement.
That doesn't really make sense, though. Go is entirely open source. If Google dropped it tomorrow there are more than enough non-Google people invested in it to continue development.
What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)