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No one will follow along.

"The only sure path to failure is to not even try."

Or are you both implying the power of and supporting the massive monopoly that Google already has?




Encouraging people to use a different language entirely (Rust, whatever) is much much more likely to succeed than getting them to use some random Go fork.


> Or are you both implying the power of and supporting the massive monopoly that Google already has?

This is not a reasonable assessment.

Golang is massive; why would anyone switch to not-Golang which isn't backed by a large organisation and just has one string comparison optimisation?

And why would anyone trust a forking entity that forked a runtime to make a change that could be packaged as a library, as the comment you're replying to already suggests?




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