Why isn't go more popular?

[Santi Ferra]

When you see the ranking of the most liked programming languages, go is near c++, a really "hated app". But since is efficient and produces really clean code, why no wants like it ?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:20 PM Santi Ferra
<santino.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> When you see the ranking of the most liked programming languages, go is near c++, a really "hated app". But since is efficient and produces really clean code, why no wants like it ?

What rankings are you looking at?

Ian

[David Riley]

Seconded. I would question those rankings, at least for code that's used for forward-looking purposes; in my experience, Go is rapidly replacing Java and in a number of cases Python for backend applications, and it has a lot of first-party support for things like API clients, telemetry, etc. that comes before those languages in many cases as well.

I feel like most people who dislike Go generally haven't used it. Having used it quite a bit, there are things I don't like a lot about it, but they're things that I feel like I can easily overlook given all the things it improves for me. Those are the things people who haven't really given it much use tend to seize on, in my experience (e.g. "Go doesn't have generics", "Go doesn't really have a good way to make an iterator", etc.).

Rankings aren't generally very useful because they try to turn a massive vector quantity into a scalar for everyone's purposes, when in reality different people put different weights on things. It's much more likely that you're seeing the effects of "which language is most used", and Go is a lot younger than most of the other languages in those rankings.


- Dave

[Mark Sinoberg]

can not agree more with u, go cool.

[Fabio Nascimento]

Totally agree

[tapi...@gmail.com]

Personally, Go will become more popular if we could develop gfx/gui apps in Go with ease.

[Amnon]

I think Go is actually quite popular.
Especially with people on this list....

[sandeep sarkar]

If someone is using containers and microservices then they are touched by the awesomeness of go... I believe its the foundation of most devOps platform.

[cisgo io]

Hello tapi,

"Personally, Go will become more popular if we could develop gfx/gui apps in Go with ease."

I think we all here want Go to "smoke some butt" and to push beyond being sucessful to being "the" language of Reason, just an amazing language as it is. But languages evolve and popularity can be achieved by us all implementing solutions in our fields that do the job, fast, efficiently structured and secure.

I foremost believe, if I can motivate Cisco to embrace Go, use and see the benifits of this awesome computer language in Enterprise, Datacenter Networking, then I'm doing my part :-D

If Cisco learns to love Go, then that will, without a doubt, be "fuel on the fire" :-D

If we all keep being inspired with this wonderful language, then Go will succeed, as we succeed :-)

HTH, Scottie 

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[tapi...@gmail.com]

Your attitude is very interesting.