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How does one even make that connection? Why would Google be interested in such a topic? I'm pretty sure GoLang doesn't make them money directly, but rather as it streamlines their in-house work. I don't think they profit off this even a tiny bit.
Also GoLang, while probably not a better language in every aspect, has some very neat properties which set it apart from Rust (and vice versa).
Yeah it's a weird thing to say. Google pays Mozilla a HUGE amount of money to be Firefox's default search engine. Although the main reason they're happy to pay so much for that is that they WANT to keep at least one Chrome competitor alive, so they don't end up in an anti-trust shitfest like Microsoft did with Internet Explorer.
The bigger point here is that Go doesn't really compete with Rust or C++. Chromium is written in C++, not Go.
You expect too much from "tech journalists".
You're right. Tech Won't Save Us.