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> No-one uses Go in the real world.

YouTube uses Go for some very high-qps and mission-critical stuff.

https://github.com/youtube/vitess is in Go and sits on top of YouTube's MySQL databases. There are other as-yet-not-open-sourced systems written in Go that perform similarly-critical roles.

Yeah, we're still at a point in adoption where everybody building a production system in Go is still notable because they did it in Go in the first place.

Systems built in Dart are practically unheard of.

Here's a list of no-ones using Go in the real world: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers

It was hyperbole, I'm simply saying there are a hundred if not 10,000 times more jobs in PHP than Go and will be for the foreseeable future.

HN is a oracle of tech, but a lot of it gos nowhere. And Go's still in the early stages. I remember the 3 months or so everyone here was raving about how Twisted was the next big thing.