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> What if Google goes under?

Then Go is still an Open Source Project with massive community support, that everyoen is free to form and extend or maintain by himself.

> What makes you so convinced "someone" will take over?

Because tens of thousands of projects depend on the language? Because the people who developed go don't just vanish if Google suddenly did? Because OSS has a long history of maintenance changing hands?

> sure, someone will step in and maintain Python 2.X indefinitely... Well, no one did.

There is a simple reason for that: Py2 was obsoleted by it's successor, Py3. There is simply no point in maintaining an obsolete language, especially if it has a direct successor, that is both similar, and an improvement in every single way.

And even so, Python 2.7 was still supported for almost a decade after it's release.