No. At Least Go is not there on Google I/O for last few years. To me it is encouraging that Go has its own conference Gophercon and not riding on Google I/O.
I believe Go at Google does not have same relationship as Java at Oracle or Swift at Apple.
I believe Go at Google does not have same relationship as Java at Oracle or Swift at Apple.
That's correct - GopherCon is a community effort. It originated when a community member expressed surprised that there wasn't already a Go conference, and then, upon encouragement from others, decided to organize one themselves. They remain the organizers of the event, and they do not work for Google.
Google has been a diamond-level sponsor for the last three "main" GopherCon conferences[0], but no different from any other sponsor of the conference in that regard. And that's by design - the Go project aims to be a community effort, not solely the work of Google employees, although Google does hire a small number of people who work on it full-time.
This isn't inherently better or worse than the model that (for example) Oracle uses with Java. It's just a different philosophy - and in the case of Go specifically, one that everyone involved seems to be happy with. The Go project contributors (including those employed by Google) want it to be a community-driven project, and the Go community members are by and large happy carrying the mantle themselves as well.
[0] GopherCon happens every year in Denver, but there are tons of other conferences around the world that carry the GopherCon name - for example, GopherCon Singapore is happening a week from today[1]
[1] And, similarly, traces its origins to a single tweet from a community member expressing interest in a conference.
Could you tell me more about it, please?
Swift: "Swift and the Swift logo are trademarks of Apple Inc."
OpenJDK: "© 2017 Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates "
Go: "Except as noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, and code is licensed under a BSD license."
Google never cared for Go.
It wasn't created as a strategic project or investment. It's a language created by a small team on Google doing their thing.
It does keep paying them to work on Go though (and probably devoted some more people to it), so there's that, but Google neither hired them specifically for Go, nor requested that they work on such a project from the onset.
It was also never made THE official language for Google development by some decree, nor was getting it to Android any priority (they favored Kotlin for that in the end). Neither was it ever strongly marketed by Google to outside developers.
Dart/Angular got more of an official "sponsoring" from Google (including devoting a top notch compiler guy like Lars Bak to work for the former) than Golang. From what I've heard, it has seen adoption inside Google, but nothing game changing.
I'm pretty sure there is quite more stuff now, but those known are not much to write home about. Even downloads is not some "huge port" -- the presentation mentions "14,032" lines.
It was Vitesse:
The parent comment was asking about projects so I presented one that sprung to mind.
> Even downloads is not some "huge port" -- the presentation mentions "14,032" lines.
Yes, it mentions "39 files (14,032 lines) deleted" which is not small in my mind. Not to mention they heavily leveraged the standard library and some other projects like groupcache.
While Java is most common, there's no single language for Android, either. C++ was always used for games, Kotlin is now officially supported, and Dart is in alpha via Flutter: https://flutter.io/
(Not to mention all the different languages supported on Cloud.)
Anything you say about "Google" caring for a language is probably true of some teams and not true of others.
Not a Googler (or even close), so can't verify, but from what I've heard it's like this:
Google backend is C++, Java and Python. To this, they also allow Go now (and for some years).
But Go was never meant as a "create us an new official Google language to rule them all" directive, or even "create a language that solves Google scale programming issues". (I mean, the Go team had the latter issues in mind -- but, Google itself didn't, and didn't ask for such thing officially (in the way they officially jumpstarted projects like V8, or Dart, or GWT etc). The Go team created Google on their own, not as some official "new Google language" decree from above).
>While Java is most common, there's no single language for Android, either. C++ was always used for games, Kotlin is now officially supported, and Dart is in alpha via Flutter: https://flutter.io/*
Well, it might sound like there are 3 languages now (and 4 soonish), but officially apps were meant to be coded in Java/Davlik, and high perf games in C++ for almost a decade. So, as far as Android official languages go, it has been Java all the way for app development for ages...