Well said. > On Jan 16, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How global mindshare develops is something that I know quite a bit about > through leadership and engineering experience in multiple billion user > projects. > > One key lesson for me was that you reach a point where the audience you > originally wanted to serve (or refocused to serve) has been served. That’s > when the debate of “more for this group” or “something for other groups” > starts with vigor. > > There is a natural desire to grow but my advice here, after looking back > honestly, is that the way to move forward is to be so excellent at some > aspect(s) that users become effective missionaries. This is the only scaling > mechanism at scale (other than force in unusually controlled scenarios). > > Looking forward (i.e. guessing) maybe Go needs new greatness in what it > already is and has by way of an “encyclopedia” of well-loved solutions. > Imagine a guide to 100 top uses with links to tools, samples for each, and > lots of details so that anyone wanting to build a static or dynamic web > server, ftp server, ssh client, mail processor, ... would have complete > guides from start to finish. > > Maybe existing solutions are sufficient or maybe they could be better. If > they have room for improvement then my guess is that this kind of beginner > hand holding might be the most effective investment for user growth. > > Just a guess, > Michael > >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:33 AM Amnon Baron Cohen <amno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Go was originally conceived as a niche language. And if it does what we >> need, then I don't think >> we need to be particularly bothered if other languages are more "popular". >> >> But when looking at language popularity, I am not sure that the number of >> google searches is the most meaningful metric. >> >> Lines of code on github could be more interesting. >> >> FWIW: Githubs octoverse shows shows a 147% growth in Go usage last year. >> >> And more interesting growth stats can be found on the Go blog >> https://blog.golang.org/8years >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/28b8066f-876b-41f6-b249-94dc4f255347%40googlegroups.com. > -- > Michael T. Jones > michael.jo...@gmail.com > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CALoEmQy-c1eH-bCH1vmTyMdf3_NMt31v6cWSdD8abha1OT%2BF%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
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