Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox (golang.org)

Posted by timothy on from the tradition-of-heritage dept.

digitalPhant0m writes: Six years ago today the Go language was released as an open source project. Since then, more than 780 contributors have made over 30,000 commits to the project's 22 repositories. The ecosystem continues to grow, with GitHub reporting more than 90,000 Go repositories. And, offline, we see new Go events and user groups pop up around the world with regularity And Opensource.com notes that Mozilla Firefox has just hit 11 years of age, too.

1 of 65 comments (clear)

  1. Firefox nostalgia by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >> " I was tired of my browser crashing everyday, so I tried Firefox. " (quote from the advertisement in TFA)

    Oh, I miss those days.

    >> Firefox users can look forward to solid Web VR support in the browser, multiprocess browsing (e10s), a revamped add-ons platform

    Do not want, meh, it'll break every plug-in that I still use with Firefox? Happy birthday! (uninstalls)