[phasevar]

Go is a tool that Google is using to reduce its development costs. It's not something they're looking at from a profit perspective. If it does it's job and makes their development process faster and easier then they have no reason not to keep supporting it. If it doesn't do its job then it's a clear sign that you might want to discontinue using it too.

So far, from what I've seen, companies who use it love it.

I think it's a safe bet that it's not going away and will only get better.

[hkarthik]

Any Googlers care to chime in on this? I've heard Java and C++ are pretty entrenched in Google these days so there's a lot of inertia to get people to try Go for production level work.