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0 pointsSloopJon9y ago0 comments

FWIW, Go and Rust are 16 and 43, respectively on the TIOBE index:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

A Github search turned up 2,658 Go repositories with more than 100 stars:

https://github.com/search?l=go&q=stars%3A%3E100&type=Reposit...

compared to 348 Rust repositories:

https://github.com/search?l=rust&q=stars%3A%3E100&type=Repos...

Notably, Docker has more stars than Go itself.

Edit: you may also be interested in IEEE Spectrum's interactive list of the top programming languages:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programm...

With the default parameters, Go and Rust are 10 and 26, respectively.

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hajile9y ago· 2 in thread

It's also worth noting that you're a bit less likely to see rust users because the kind of software that wants rust instead of golang tends to be the kind that gets written by a large company with deep pockets and a preference for closed source repositories.

kid0m4n9y ago

If only Go was useful in building closed source products. Google must not have gotten the memo about Rust yet.

coldtea9y ago

Contrary to popular legend, Google is not particularly strong on Go use, and it's not "THE official language".

It wasn't officially commissioned or officially adopted by Google to solve Google's coding problems as some believe.

It was merely initiated by a small team in Google, as their proposal for solving Google-scale coding problems. And has never been mandatory for new Google projects etc.

Go is ONE of the allowed languages, from what I know, but tons of stuff is written in Java, C++ and Python with no intentions of switching.

All those years, only a few, and basically trivial with respect to Google's needs, use examples for Go have come out of Google-land (a proxy/balancer for MySQL used in YouTube, Google Downloads caching, etc).

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