[codesink]

I think google is working to move Android to Go as soon as possible; Rob Pike replied to a related question with "I cannot talk about it" and that sounds like a good clue :)

Go binaries already run on Android/ARM, the higher level code is the one that's missing.

That would bring great boost in performance (compilers are available for both x86 and ARM) without adding any complexity on the language side (Go is a cool language).

[jraines]

Just went to Google to see if I could find anything relating to this possibility, and was immediately reminded how annoying it is, with respect to search, that they named the language "Go".

[codesink]

They managed to optimize their golang.org homepage to get the position #5 on the word "go".

They must be good at SEO.

BTW the video I mentioned is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk&feature=playe...

(at the end during Q&A)

[fs111]

Well, they own the crawler and the index, they will know, what to do...

[reinhardt]

It's not that funny any more if you have to explain it ;)

[VMG]

I think everybody should just call it "golang"

[flogic]

It helps to include the words "lang" or "language" in the search. Kinda frustrating.

[uriel]

There is a "Custom Search Engine" for Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search

[jdq]

Interesting. Possibly to skirt the Oracle/Java mess? If so, I think it's a great idea. iOS/Obj-C has shown that devs will use a new (to them) language if need be.

[jemeshsu]

With Golang on AppEngine, I can see a momentum within Google pushing for Golang for Android. Rob's comment sounds very positive. I'm guessing we will see something at Google IO next year.