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I'm surprised Go is #10. I don't actually know a single person who uses it. It seems like more of a hipster language. The others all seem like reasonable languages that occupy their niche in life.

For example, I'd expect C# to be more widely used than Go. Maybe the C# people don't share their code on Github, though. Perl should also be more widely used, though maybe that's all on CPAN.

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Sure, Go may still be surrounded by some hype, but I wouldn't call it a hipster language. I started reading about it and messing around with it about a year ago. It is really fun to use for certain things (usually Network servers for me).

That is not to say it's a perfect language, but I have friends dedicated to python who love using Go and friends who use C and Java that love building personal projects with it. I really had no idea it was gaining adoption in industry and some areas of academia until recently though.

Go's popularity in hobby projects is probably due to it being a pleasure to work with. After programming in C++ at work it's a language I turn to at home when coding for my own enjoyment.

Some large companies use it: Google of course, canonical, coreos, cloudflare, dropbox, docker, sainsburys, gov.uk, booking.com. Not many hipsters. There's a longer list here https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers

You're probably correct wrt C#. It seems most open source C# projects is either on codeproject or codeplex. I suspect it'll change now that Microsoft using github though.

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