Not that I'm complaining but it this a coordinated effort to push Go to the front page? There are literally 6 submissions on the front page related to Go - what gives?
The same was true during the Microsoft Build event, the difference was that a lot of Microsoft employees registered a new (green) HN account. Not that I'm complaining but it looked more like a coordinated effort than Go language which has minimal PR from Google but is used by many devs around the world and is very big in Asia.
There are a lot of MS employees on HN normally, no need for green accounts. Also, where is Go popular in Asia? I haven't heard much about it in China (it isn't a resume point yet).
Go seems to be getting really popular in India (More than other new languages like scala/clojure/elixir that is) . We had a GopherCon earlier this year and some large e-commerce companies now use Go in their stack.
That's odd, from within the Go community it's understood that there's a rather large followership in China. At least, speaking for myself.
I've heard this to, but haven't observed it in my part of the industry (systems/PL research with lots of undergrad and grad interns from top ranked schools, who are usually the PL early adopters). Scala has been getting more interest lately, and there is growing interest in Rust.
The thing is, Go is particularly not interesting for PL researchers and geeks seeking novelty. It's more of a boring, pragmatic language. Elixir, rust et al. are much more funny, IMHO. That might be the explanation.
Yea, but isn't Go supposed to be a systems language? You might expect it to pop up more with systems candidates.