Could you elaborate on how you get from ´Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team´ to ´will Google abandon Go?´?

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I didn't say Google will abandon Go, in fact, it won't happen in the short term.
As a gopher, I just thought about what would happen to the Go language if this situation occurred.
The conclusion is that even if Go is abandoned by Google, it will still develop well.