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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. Re:Firefox nostalgia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what will you install instead, chrome? A browser that will also support WebVR, has multiprocess browsing and a revamped add-on platform?

    Honestly, Firefox was dragging behind badly with an unsecure plugin architecture and single process thread that would lock up the browser when it was loading an heavy page.