I wouldn't use being "backed by Google" as an advantage. Google has a long history of discontinuing products (Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Talk, Google Health, Knol, Picnik, and the list goes on and on).
While C and C++ were started at Bell Labs, neither was "backed" by the Labs that simply stayed out of the way. Use grew organically. While Go started at Google, Go will likely continue despite Google's involvement.
Given that Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are two of the three authors and both are former Bell Lab'ers who worked on C, I think they would have invented Go no matter what company they worked at and it would have had traction due to name recognition alone.
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I wouldn't use being "backed by Google" as an advantage. Google has a long history of discontinuing products (Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Talk, Google Health, Knol, Picnik, and the list goes on and on).
While C and C++ were started at Bell Labs, neither was "backed" by the Labs that simply stayed out of the way. Use grew organically. While Go started at Google, Go will likely continue despite Google's involvement.
I do agree with this but feel that Google being behind the Go language was a crucial part to it getting off the ground the way it has.
Given that Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are two of the three authors and both are former Bell Lab'ers who worked on C, I think they would have invented Go no matter what company they worked at and it would have had traction due to name recognition alone.