# Go

Standing (still-up). Founded 2009-11-10.
Site: [go.dev](https://go.dev)

Pike, Thompson, Griesemer, 2009. Still the language of infrastructure.

## Why it lasted
- A Google language that is boring on purpose. Boring compiled to a single binary is a career.
- The cloud, Kubernetes, and a generation of CLIs are written in it.

## Near deaths
- Generics took years and people threatened to leave. They did not.

## What would finish it
- Rust becoming the default for the same jobs with the same hiring pool. In progress at the edges, not at the CLIs.

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