[digamber_kamat]

I think a large portion of online life is already ruled by Google. I will never use Go only because it comes from Google. A mobile with Google's OS, a Google browser and Google for email and now we will also code in a language controlled by Google?

I have nothing against Google, but as a community of web developers our interest lies in diversifying and ensuring that no one gets more powerful than us.

Also looking at the features of Go itself, it seems to me that the languages caters to many needs of Google and not many of us may have those needs.

[jff]

I don't like giving over my life to Google either, but there's a big difference between using Gmail for everything and writing programs in Go. Go is an open source project. You can fork it right now if you want, call it Not-Evil-Go or whatever, and BAM it's no longer controlled by Google. They can never make it just up and disappear, the worst they could manage is to do like Oracle did with OpenSolaris and force the community to fork it.