I didn’t pull any stats but I’ve been working at Google for most of the last 10 years (in two stints).

And actually I think even 10K is a very generous upper bound, really if I were betting money I’d peg it at like maybe 2000 engineers that use golang as their primary language and a big chunk of those are SWE-SRE?

There's just _way_ more Java and C++ than there is golang…

on the fact that most of the code in prod isn't Go. anyone working there can look at the CL statistics dashboard to see what's being written, and a different dashboard to see the distribution of binary sources.

Go is very popular in some niches (a semi-mandate in SRE produced a bunch of it) and not used at all elsewhere.