Google definitely biased…

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 09:57 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Try duckduckgo.com. I typed "dlang vs golang". Then do the same 
> in google. The results are worlds apart!

Indeed, but the Duck Duck Go indexing is not yet anywhere near as good
as Google, though I use it a lot.

> 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 think this is a somewhat unfair characterization of the history and
the corporate motivations.

Java Swing needed to go. JavaFX is a reasonable technology to replace
it. Disclaimer, I am involved with GroovyFX.

Objective-C is not becoming obsolete, it is just being superceded in the
Apple walled garden.

If Google dropped Go tomorrow, there would be immediate backing for new
management of a fork. It is true that Go is currently, effectively, a
proprietary language, but the repository is open, it is just that the
committers to the mainline are all Google employees.
  
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