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by jff 5200 days ago
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.