Somewhat off-topic but are there any data on the penetration of Go outside Google, a few other companies [1] and weekend hack projects on Github? Thanks to its unfortunate name, even searching for Go developer positions is challenging [2].
This could have been a better name in my opinion. One should stay away from frequently used English words.
Maybe they wanted the name to symbolize the syntactical terseness of the language, and every other two letter name had already been taken by unix utilities.