Comment by JetSetIlly

Okay. So it's really just a protection against Google deciding to stop its own development and leaving everyone hanging. That's good. I could get on board with that.

For me however, I think it would be a challenge for the foundation to maintain the slow-and-steady development that we've seen under Google.

To bring it back to the main topic: I think a language that rarely introduces major new features, is good for teaching purposes. From that perspective, I think Go is a good language for teaching core concepts.