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Not surprised. Flutter similar to many Google iniatives have no to minimal revenue tie in. This applies as well to grpc, bazel, beam, dart, fuschia, golang, gerrit.

Personally I would not use any open source project that has less than 40% of the active contributions from non Google parties.

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I think Go is unique in this list in that the only other language that fills the same niche is Java, and Google can't afford to let the licensing whims of Oracle decide its fate.

That said, I'm actively rooting for the demise of some of the others.

Kotlin is always an option and it also interpolates well with Java.

Kotlin is also at the whim of one company (JetBrains), unfortunately..

Wow losing support for Golang is a scary thought I hadn’t considered until now.

I'm waiting nervously in anticipation.. But I wouldn't be surprised tbh

Another option is C#, it keeps getting active development, is the closest[0] in performance to pure unmanaged tier of languages and has tooling similar to Rust's cargo, isn't being abandoned any time soon (it's a core dependency of msft and seems to be increasing in amounts of promotion (finally!)), and has other industry players also working on it (like Unity).

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Golang is popular enough that development would continue even without Google. Could be a fork with a different name if needed, but it's not going anywhere.

Too many companies are relying on it.

They are so entrenched on gerrit, it's so uniquely terrible. Should have bought Gitlab when there was the moment

Gerrit's model is pretty interesting

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