The State of Go
summary
Survey data show half of survey respondents use Go daily and employers are hiring Go developers; GitHub counts 200,000 Go projects and ~40,000 forks, and the project logged 341 contributors last year with 121 first-time interactions. The community estimates 1.5–2 million Go developers (~7% of devs). New infrastructure includes the Go Developer Network (GTN) and a GoBridge–WomenWhoGo merger providing meetup support and paid accounts; experience reports feed language decisions, and organizers emphasize compassion, inclusivity, and more learning materials.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:37The most important thing! learned is that a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself.
- 1:42SECTION ONE USER SURVEY RESULTS
- 2:12respondents are now using Go as part of their daily routine!
- 3:07A large majority of survey respondents said Go is their most-preferred programming language, despite generally feeling less proficient with it than at least one other language.
- 4:38SECTION TWO PROJECT STATS
- 11:07SECTION THREE COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENTS
- 14:02A GLOBAL NETWORK
- 20:28Go's community will increase in size and become more globally connected.
- 20:55The Go project will continue to talk to the community to understand what support is needed externally to increase Go's adoption at a massive scale.
