Is .NET still around?

It's also very fashionable compared to other garbage-collected languages, which is arguably a more sensible comparison. Though one could argue that ReasonML (an Ocaml frontend with vaguely Go-ish syntax) has the better overall design.

It's not only about echo-chambers. Rust is an emerging language, it's enthusiasts feel compelled to promote it to help it grow faster. Go is already well established and it's users likely feel that this language will be fine without their advocacy and more likely to stay silent. Go generated much more excitement on HN when it was not yet widely used but was growing and promising.

If you look at github stats go is still growing I don't see how you think it is its not used anymore it is the only largly used language that is still growing.

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/3

Go is a wildly used language not sure what you mean by it's not used anyway, it's a growing and very popular language.

> Not in the sense that it's a bad language, but just that it's not used much anymore.

What are you talking about? Go is a popular language. Many of the successful software projects released in recent years are written in Go.

Google Trends is a terrible indicator.