Golang overtakes Clojure in Goggle Trends

Here's an interesting trio:golang, rust, and julia all about equal right now:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...

Also interesting that clojure is much bigger in the google trends "Programming" category. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...

Due to the fuzzy way language is used, one cannot simply compare 'go', 'clojure', or 'scala' search quantities directly. Not everybody refers to 'Go' as 'golang', 'scala' is a common noun in some languages, etc.

At best, you can reframe your query to remove unrelated topics completely, with searches like "golang" and "scala language", which will be proportional to the search popularity of the topics but only a fraction of actual searches (a different fraction for each searchterm, but stable over time), and compare their relative rates of growth rather than their absolute levels.

That's... a very specific comparison. Why is Clojure singled out here? They don't really inhabit the same problem space.

I'm stopping my focus on clojure right away because go is trending!!!... lol

I've yet to see anything from go that makes it worth the investment for me in 2014..clojure solves all my needs and then some.. and there are oh so many needs..

Check out the countries of origin. Clojure is huge in Scandinavia, golang searches overwhelmingly coming from China.

confused, but according to the chart it was only for a bit and then dipped back down.

Though I am definitely interested in golang and would love to find a good reason to write some production code for work in it.

The Goggle trends, they do nothing!