Go is Google's language, not ours

There is lot of conversation around generics in #go, can't we have something like OpenGo, where community can implement generics , rather that waiting for official #go generics to happen ? Something like OpenJDK..

There are many answers for why this won't happen, but one that does not usually get said out loud is that Go is Google's language, not the community's.

Yes, there's a community that contributes things to Go, some of them important and valued things; you only have to look at the diversity of people ...

There is lot of conversation around generics in #go, can't we have something like OpenGo, where community can implement generics , rather that waiting for official #go generics to happen ? Something like OpenJDK..

There are many answers for why this won't happen, but one that does not usually get said out loud is that Go is Google's language, not the community's.

Yes, there's a community that contributes things to Go, some of them important and valued things; you only have to look at the diversity of people ...