I'm not a Golang programmer, but the mere fact that GOOG decided Java for android is convincing enough that even GOOG does not believe in its Go.
(Frankly, I doubted that a little, until I realized Al-*-Go was not actually written in Go!)
(Frankly, I doubted that a little, until I realized Al-*-Go was not actually written in Go!)
Not to mention Go is focused on a different use case. Go is gunning for microservices (with it's concurrency chops) and CLI based tools (being a single compiled binary).. whereas Android apps are a totally different beast that stands little to gain from either of those. In fact shipping multiple binaries for different architectures is a bit of a detractor for Android considering it supports MIPS, ARM, and x86.
> until I realized Al-*-Go was not actually written in Go!
Again, AlphaGo was based off technology from DeepMind, a company Google acquired.
Please atleast do some quick wikipedia browsing before spewing FUD.
So? Apple introduced Swift after Obj-C to make developing iOS apps easier. What about GOOG? Couldn't they at least use Dart or Go (both of which they developed) for android app development after Java? BTW, last time I checked, they're still in for a lot to come from Oracle.
> Again, Al-*-Go was based off technology from ...
So let me get this straight. They bought a technology which was apparently written in C++/JS and rewrote it in another lang, but then again, they did not choose Go or Dart.
Seems like some one needs a wikipedia browsing...