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by pretoriusB 4936 days ago
>V8 was simply a drop-in replacement for existing Javascript VM's, so there was no "adoption" curve

I never said anything about adoption curve. I'm talking about money spend by Google on the project and promotion done by them on it. V8 had a large team assembled, with a star compiler guy, was heavily promoted with marketing material, website and even several videos.

Of course V8 was part of their plan to take over the web browser, whereas Go is just a language for them. Well, my sentiments exactly.