After leaving Google, the former head of go language changed to a small company

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Google Go Product owner of language Steve Francia Recently announced on social media that he will leave Google . He said in his blog ：“… With the past few times Go Release , I feel more and more that I am with Go The team's journey is coming to an end …”

Always lead Go From minority language to mainstream language Steve Francia Why have such feelings ？

exceed 25 Years of open source experience

If you're not familiar with it Steve Francia This name doesn't matter , Look at his resume and you will be impressed .Steve Francia In the open source field, it has more than 25 Years of working experience , Led six open source projects ：Go、Docker、Hugo、MongoDB、Drupal、Cobra, And he is Hugo、Cobra、Viper and spf13-vim The author of . He helped Google Defines the open source strategy , It's also Github The most popular former 50 Famous engineer .

Steve Francia stay 6 Joined... Years ago Go The team , The goal is to Go From a niche language to a mainstream 、 Enterprise level language . Now look back ,Steve Francia Already completed , It can even be said that this goal has been overfulfilled .

In the past 6 Mid year ,Go Our user base has grown 10 times ,Go The frequency of users' use has changed from occasional use to daily use nowadays . today ,Go It has been widely regarded as a mainstream enterprise language .Go As a modern cloud computing language , It is the main infrastructure language , exceed 75% Of CNCF The project uses Go Compiling , It is also one of the major cloud computing application languages .

However ,Steve Francia Now I think I have completed my mission, but I don't want to stop , He said ：“ I just joined Google When , There's a lot about Go And in Google The knowledge of work needs to be learned , But now my learning speed has obviously slowed down . I am very entangled. , Although I like this team and the work we are doing , But I personally feel stagnant . With Go 1.18 Release , I feel like I'm Go The task of the team has been completed .”

And about the future , He also has his own plan ：“ Next, I will focus on data science and machine learning …Two Sigma In the past 20 years , Has been in Data Science 、 The frontier of distributed computing and machine learning innovation , Deep investment in open source . I see their potential in promoting machine learning and data science , This makes me feel like I joined for the first time MongoDB、Docker and Go The same excitement and excitement . I'm glad to join Two Sigma This talented team .”

Benefit thousands of developers

Many developers are Steve Francia I learned about the hero behind the scenes in his resignation declaration , This blog also triggered in Hacker News On 200 Hot discussion among many developers .

One developer said ：“ in fact , This is the first time I've heard of this man , But this is an impressive list of participating projects ！”

From the voice of developers ,Go Language does benefit many people , As one developer said ：“ these years , I've been using Go Do all my projects . My current production backend has 20 Multiple services , All in Kubernetes On the use of Go function , by 10 More than 10000 user services .

This is a magical language , Because its productivity is very high . Sometimes I am Go It says an hour's service （ Pun ）, Open it and it will run . I have never experienced such a thing in other languages .

meanwhile , Its consumption of resources is also very low . My server hardly needs anything to serve so many users .”

Another developer also said ：“ about 10 Years ago ,spf13-vim Showed me vim The ability of , And changed my coding life forever . Without it , I will not have today's achievements .”

We believe that ,Steve Francia There is still more creativity to be exerted in new companies and new projects . Now? , He is eager to challenge the change he wants in the new company , And hope to open up a new path for the industry . future , There will be infinite possibilities ！

Reference material ：https://spf13.com/p/spf13-google/

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