Google definitely biased…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 09:57:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 20:31:55 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 11.08.2014 19:40, schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d:
>>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:23:19 +0100
>>> Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Google definitely try to push Go :-)
>>> so you mean that Go can't walk on it's own and needs to be 
>>> constantly
>>> pushed by Google so other people will think that it's alive? 
>>> heh.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, just look to the previous incarnations of Go (Alef, 
>> Limbo, Oberon 2).
>>
>> What is actually happening is the Rails, NodeJS hipsters now 
>> found a new toy, just because it has the Google stamp on it.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
> Try duckduckgo.com. I typed "dlang vs golang". Then do the same 
> in google. The results are worlds apart!
>
> What happens, if one day Google says that they will abandon Go, 
> cos it didn't bring the desired results? Just like companies 
> tend to abandon languages and frameworks at random. Remember 
> Google translate? Java Swing is to be replaced by JavaFX. Now 
> Objective-C is becoming obsolete. There are loads of examples. 
> People flock to technologies backed by big companies, because 
> they think it's safer to do so. But again and again, companies 
> just drop technologies as they see fit. Open source has been 
> more reliable. Most frameworks still exist (think of all the 
> Linux stuff).

I can think of very few successful programming languages in the 
market without corporate backing.

Even standard ECMA/ANSI/ISO ones, where at a given point in time, 
corporate languages.

--
Paulo