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		fragmede on April 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grasshopper – A coding app for beginners You're assuming they care. Google was aware of a startup called Inbox that did stuff with email, yet they went ahead with their own app called inbox, steamrolling the startup. I have no reason to suspect the same thing isn't happening here.

adrianmalacoda on April 19, 2018 [–]

Wouldn't be the first time that happened. Go had the same "issue." [0]

The ticket was eventually closed with status "unfortunate"

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

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