It’s really, really hard for me to see any Google efforts as anything other than mechanisms to convert more people into products and harvest their data. They do support good stuff - I’m heavily invested in Go, and except for the fact thay it’s mainly used to drive web applications and, therefore, the Google ecosystem, I haven’t found any way thay my use of it can directly harvest me. But in general, Google has earned a position of “guilty, until proven innocent,” and I’m skeptical of any OS they promote.

It feels like they’re jumping on the Rust bandwagon in hopes that fans will blindly use their OS because “Rust,” only to find out a core component phones all activity to Google for “quality control.”

I may be wrong, it may be innocent. I have not yet been wrong when I’ve been suspicious* of Google.

• I picked up Go back before I realized just how far from “do no evil” Google had shifted.