Google definitely biased…

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 16:43:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> If Google dropped Go tomorrow, there would be immediate 
>>> backing for new
>>> management of a fork.
>>
>> Sure, and we would have Go+, GNUGo, FreeGo (discontinued) and 
>> whatnot, each having a different philosophy. There would be 
>> flame wars on the internet and nobody would know which kind of 
>> Go to use.
>>
>
> Just like any open language implementation out there.
>
> CRuby vs JRuby vs RubyMotion vs ...
> CPython vs Jython vs ...
> Clang vs gcc vs msvc vs icc vs aC++ vs xlc vs ....
>
> Or for that matter
>
> Dmd vs ldc vs gdc

Which is not what I meant. For Python and C etc there is still 
one reference implementation of the language, regardless of 
compilers or additional frameworks. What I meant were different 
_implementations_ of the language with different features and 
libraries, like Phobos and Tango (back in the day). That might 
happen to Go, if Google let it, well, go.