A mediocre language with lots of corporate support
It's very disingenuous to compare the level of corporate support that Sun provided Java and the level of corporate "support" (involvement) that Google provides Go.
The Go project began at Google to solve the sorts of challenges that Google was having (architecting and managing large servers), and several of the original members of the Go team work at Google, but the Go team has gone out of their way to ensure that Google (the corporation) doesn't control Go development.
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It's very disingenuous to compare the level of corporate support that Sun provided Java and the level of corporate "support" (involvement) that Google provides Go.
The Go project began at Google to solve the sorts of challenges that Google was having (architecting and managing large servers), and several of the original members of the Go team work at Google, but the Go team has gone out of their way to ensure that Google (the corporation) doesn't control Go development.
So... a mediocre language with (very relatively) little corporate support but lots of corporate name recognition?