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Seriously.

But because Go is the latest of Rob's languages and have spent over 20 years using previous works. It is a relationship built on trust in the concepts. Tackling a language take commitment so it is reassuring when it is built by a team that you trust.




Except all those languages failed in the market until Google sponsorship came around.


Depends which market. They're used on IBM's Blue Gene, in Sandia Labs supercomputer centre, Los Alamos Super computer centre, at NASA JPL, ran the lighting at Sydney Olympics, are used in Lucent's mobile phones masts.


I didn't knew Alef and Limbo had so much users.


Limbo moreso than Alef.

And Plan9's C dialect is also under Rob's tutelage.


I was being ironic. Never saw Plan 9 and its eco-system having any commercial success.

Actually, I wonder how much money Vita Nuova makes out from Inferno.


Vita Nuova is now just one guy, Charles, but I know he makes a living himself working on/consulting for the systems I mentioned. His colleague Rog Peppe, now works for Canonical doing Go.

As I mentioned, Plan9 is used on a few super computer systems for IBM and the DoD.




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