Open source is a rapidly growing movement across virtually all languages, but still a small minority of all software. So the Trends graph is more revealing than Github activity. Assembly language use on Github also increased by ~150%
There's no question that Go use is growing rather quickly. It's the mindshare that I'm preoccupied with, because I'd expect that to impact Alphabet Inc's budgeting calculus. On a golang-dev thread recently, I raised the point that talking about "Go 2" may have created a widespread misperception (esp among non-users) that a backwards incompatible "v2.0" language is planned. This comment on the last Redmonk survey is telling about Go's public perception: *Go (-1): For the second run in a row, Go dropped one spot, this time out of a tie with R for 15th back to 16th on our list. To be sure, placement in the top twenty is by itself a remarkable achievement; many popular, widely used and beloved languages lay well behind it. But for all of its credibility and usage in widely used, popular projects, Go’s lack of versatility – perceived or otherwise – has limited its upside. Go has remained a solidly top twenty language, but has never placed higher than 14th, and that for only a single quarter. It will also be interesting to see if any of the controversy surrounding Go’s future direction – and the community’s input or lack thereof into that – has any observable impact on the language’s traction moving forward.* >From https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/07/18/language-rankings-6-19/ On Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:33:36 AM UTC-8, Amnon Baron Cohen 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/5f40c9c1-2ca3-419e-b410-f0f835d63d04%40googlegroups.com.
