Speaking of companies besides Google using Go: While I am aware that several companies use Go I am not sure if, worse-come-to-worst, one or several of them would invest in it if Google drops it. I would assume their thought process going something like: Should we invest to keep the language going or should we just let our Go apps run for now and rebuild them in something else? Or even worse, several dialects start popping up.
I hope I do not sound too negative, quite on the contrary I really like Go and most probably will go with it for a medium-sized project. It's just that I am still having an inner dialogue between the geek in me and channeling a very conservative pointy-haired boss :)
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I know of several startups in NYC using Go to great effect; bitly's nsq comes to mind: https://github.com/bitly/nsq
The NY Times open sourced a very cool tool "streamtools" that was built in Go: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-strea...
Your question also reminds me of an interesting talk I saw at RICON: https://speakerdeck.com/al3x/nobody-ever-got-fired-for-picki...
Thanks for the link to the speaker deck slides. For anyone else interested, here is the link to the video recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zJIqdw19N8
Speaking of companies besides Google using Go: While I am aware that several companies use Go I am not sure if, worse-come-to-worst, one or several of them would invest in it if Google drops it. I would assume their thought process going something like: Should we invest to keep the language going or should we just let our Go apps run for now and rebuild them in something else? Or even worse, several dialects start popping up.
I hope I do not sound too negative, quite on the contrary I really like Go and most probably will go with it for a medium-sized project. It's just that I am still having an inner dialogue between the geek in me and channeling a very conservative pointy-haired boss :)