Ask HN: How does Google uses the Go Programming Language?

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How does google use the go programming language? Is there any other organisation or startup using Go for any considerable software? Can I expect a large growth of the language, in terms of industry in 5 years?

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For instance the golang.org website is running on Go: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_interna...

Google open sourced vitess for scaling out and coordinating (sharding + replication, schema rollouts) mysql databases, it seems they use it internally: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

P.S. Other organizations using Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

Good to hear that. Vitess seems quite large. I think, maybe, they use it for other large internal stuff too.

PS your ps is a great link... Is it complete?

I believe yes.

- programmers create new open source libraries for Go; - language got 1.0 version so it can be considered by enterprises for production; - programmers write articles about it so we have some buzz around it; - community grows with a set of books about Go.

So I think the overall popularity will grow.

It would be nice for Golang site to have some section about "companies using Go...".

Yeah, I would like to see that section(like python's site has!)..

cloudflare.com uses go in production. http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare

This is just the first of many projects CloudFlare has in the works being built with Go and is looking for more developers interested in Go.

Soundcloud uses go.

how?

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