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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.

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  1. What about Phoenix/Firebird? by wardrich86 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Weren't Firefox's precursors also open-source? This would make it the (roughly) 17th anniversary for them.