[tl]

This is optics versus reality. Its goal was to address shortcomings in C++ and Java. It has replaced neither at Google and its own creators were surprised it competed with python, mostly on the value of having an easier build and deploy process.

[lelanthran]

If we're using "did not meet the stated goal" as a bar for success, then Java also "failed", because it was developed as an embedded systems language and only pivoted to enterprise applications after being a dismal and abject failure at the stated goal.

If Java is not a failure then neither is Go.

If Go is a failure then so is Java.

Personally I think it is inaccurate to judge a mainstream, popular and widely adopted language as a failure just because it did not meet the goal set at the initiation of the project, prior to even the first line of code getting written.

[0x696C6961]

Go has replaced Java and C++ in numerous other environments.

[cyberpunk]

We use a boatload of off the shelf go components; but i don't see it making any progress at replacing java at my bank. We are extremely happy with where java is these days...

[dilyevsky]

> It has replaced neither

Except that it did. Just because people aren’t rewriting borg and spanner in go doesn’t mean it isnt default choice for many of infra projects. And python got completely superseded by go even during my tenure

[Joker_vD]

And haven't people actually rewritten Kubernetes in Go? I vaguely recall it was originally written in Java.