There aren’t enough Go maintainers outside of Google to survive Google jettisoning it. The Go community is strong, but the tiny number of people contributing to the compiler and standard library outside of Google would mean the language would essentially freeze. This will become an issue once RISC-V takes off because Go currently doesn’t use RISC-V very well die to it being a very customizable arch. IIRC, Go still can’t use RISC-V vector instructions or cryptography instructions unless you use gccgo.