Comment So what does this do different? (Score 5, Insightful) 250
I'm kind of confused as to where google is going these days.
Is this just a side effect of hiring too many bored CS graduates -- put enough in a room together and they come up with their own languages?
I just can't see this being used outside of google -- Web Programming is largely a solved problem, and there are already a plethora of options. Since MS and Apple won't touch anything that comes out of Google, it'll only ever be relevant on the server side -- which is where there are already too many options.
Unless this does something radical -- and judging by what Go was, I doubt it -- this will probably be a niche thing they use internally.