Google Trends is commonly used to discern public interest in topics, especially emerging ones. That's not equivalent to usage, but note my title: "Go mindshare is..."
For example, I've seen this chart of Python, Ruby, and Node.js posted elsewhere. It seems to reflect interest accurately. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F05z1_,%2Fm%2F06ff5,%2Fm%2F0bbxf89 I didn't start this thread as an attack on Go; I think it's preferable to any other environment, unless you need seamless C interop. The trend of public interest in Go is important, and it's barely rising. On Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 2:05:35 PM UTC-8, Rob Muhlestein wrote: > > I've always considered Google Trends to be a dubious source of *actual* > trending and usage. Maybe I'm missing something but isn't it just based on > searches, not usage. > > Go is absolutely fine because it is a far better approach than Python for > most things and people are realizing it, they might not be searching for > it. > > One recent indicator was when Dropbox announced it's port to all Go code > base (from Python) and the same week that Guido tweeted his retirement > (from Dropbox). > > As more and more engineers and developers with insight share why and how > more will reach the mainstream. Focusing on how "popular" the language is > seems counter-productive to me > > --- > “Mr. Rob” Muhlestein > /^((Found|Teach|Hack)er|(Men|Jani)tor|C\w+O)$/ > r...@robs.io <javascript:> • skilstak.io > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:18 PM, Liam <networ...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > My point is that Go should be rising, since Java & C# are falling. Python > has gained significant mindshare, and Go is way better. > > I think something's amiss with the public perception of Go, but it's hard > to say what. > > On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 12:34:54 PM UTC-8, Liam wrote: > >> Google Trends graph showing past 5y of Java, Python, C#, Node.js, Go >> >> >> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F07sbkfb,%2Fm%2F05z1_,%2Fm%2F07657k,%2Fm%2F0bbxf89,%2Fm%2F09gbxjr >> >> >> > -- 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/db097e36-86b2-42cb-8bc2-455e96831f6f%40googlegroups.com.
