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by threethirtytwo 200 days ago
They are standing on the shoulders of giants. There's nothing wrong with the ideals and the motivation, but it begs the question: Could Mu exist without go? could go exist without google? Could Mu exist without google?

And all of that culminates with: Could the level of technology and the internet reach the state it is today without big tech? And if not, was the price we paid to get here worth it?

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> but it begs the question: Could Mu exist without go? could go exist without google? Could Mu exist without google?

No, it doesn't.

Obviously Mu could exist without Go, if Google stopped development on the language, its current state could be forked (Go 2). Lots of programming languages exist without Google's support, there are even programming languages older than Google.

Woah didn’t know there were programming languages other than golang. Perhaps they can switch to nodejs, Google wasn’t involved with that.