On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:43 AM 'Carla Pfaff' via golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 23:28:17 UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> To be clear, there is no Go 2, and there are no plans for Go 2. > > > For someone who follows the mailing lists and issue comments this has been > known for a while, but it's easy to see where the confusion comes from, given > these blog posts: > > https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2 > https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come > https://blog.golang.org/go2-next-steps > > They mention backward-compatibility, but only for the initial proposals "to > get the ball rolling". There hasn't been a blog post titled "There are no > plans for Go 2" or "Go 2 is not what you think it is" so far. The current > policy seems to be this document: > > "Proposal: Go 2 transition": > https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/28221-go2-transitions.md > "If the above process works as planned, then in an important sense there > never will be a Go 2." > > It is labeled "Proposal", but it doesn't seem to be a proposal in the usual > proposal process sense, and many may have missed it.
You're right, I wrote that poorly. People use "Go 2" in various different ways. I should have said: there is no plan to ever break backward compatibility with earlier versions of Go. Ian -- 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/CAOyqgcXtH%3DjG%3DpK7-ADbV6cGTJ3oTyav4oK0nCpYvrgMphdQSg%40mail.gmail.com.
