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		objektif on May 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Lan... That is a ver very strong assumption. Just because Google did not explicitly have a ‘GO’ team does not mean they did not support it. I assume Google became aware of it the moment their employees started using it for something useful. People have bosses who have bosses. At whoch point they decided to let their employees continue working on it.

emmelaich on May 28, 2019 [–]

Go exists because Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and others are allowed the latitude to make it.

You can be sure that whatever they do gets a high profile without it in any way being "supported" or "official"

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