Last month’s hot topic in IT circles was Google laying off many developers from its Python core team... Tagged with google, go.

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Recent layoffs at Google have sparked concerns about the future of the Go programming language. With Google laying off key developers from other projects, there's speculation about Go's fate. Potential scenarios include the dissolution of the Go core team, rebranding by Google, or a transition to an external foundation like CNCF. Despite these concerns, Go’s current attachment to Google Cloud and its focus on customer success suggest that immediate shutdown is unlikely. The language might transition to a nonprofit organization, drawing parallels to Rust's journey from Mozilla.

If Google No Longer supports Golang

Reading htis while reading a Golang book to learn it demotivated me haha

Reading this while making a project in golang is highly motivating😂

This won’t happen.
Python is basically owned by Microsoft and they have a core team dedicating time and energy to Python.
Go is Google’s response to that therefore it makes no sense for Google to keep putting time and energy into Python. Also, most of Google’s tools are now written in Go.

This article is written only to gain clicks and views. Half of cloud computing inside and outside Google uses Go. Docker and many other important projects relays on Go and the community is growing everyday.