Thank you for writing your reply Ian. Since it's a rather long post I don't want to go through it point by point, but suffice it to say that I agree with most of what you've written. However, I also agree that Go is Google's language, and that in its current form this is a problem. I'm going to talk about two related but distinct probles here:
It's good to have strong central leadership, and I'm okay with that leadership being employed by Google. The problem is that the Go team doesn't always appear to be interested in listening to the rest of the community. We saw this when the modules proposal was created and rushed out without adequate community feedback; after the push back against that the Go team promised to do better, but they're still putting out proposals with little to no opportunity to make significant changes (eg. the package sum proposal which was put out, and then almost immediately merged, made into a release, and then made the default behavior). This is especially a problem when these proposals further tie Go to Google web services run by the Go team (though I'm veering off into a separate problem here). To me this feels like it's almost a type of vertical integration and it's an absolutely disgusting thing to do, and I don't use that word lightly. Not because I think the Go team is planning on doing anything bad with the information all Go users will now be sending to them, or because I think Google executives are putting down mandates and influencing Go, but because we don't know what future Go team members or Google execs will do. We don't know who will be running the Go project in 10 or 20 years, so the Go team now should be making sure they limit the potential for abuse, especially when they work for a company with a long history of anti- competitive behavior and abuse of its size and power. It's possible that my dissatisfaction with the proposal process is all merely confirmation bias due to my extreme negative reaction to Go communicating with Google-run web services that can't be used by large portions of the world due to U.S. export laws, but I hope the Go team will still take the feedback in the original link seriously and try to change the process. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/3c68c1ce-53bd-4f17-be48-d8bd05555f69%40www.fastmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
