Maybe the go devs see them as traitors for using rust for their core components. :P They were having memory consumption issues with go, so I'm not sure that would be the best thing to add to a list of success stories.
[1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283685
they still use go for a lot of things, rust for a niche, which is why i made the other comment in this thread: we need to see more rust success stories (and nim, and elixir, and julia, and R, et cetera) because we need to be able to evaluate the best tool for a particular task. at this point everybody worth their salt in programming is a polyglot. "oh yah, i write everything in Go [but my html templates are all javascript]".
anyway, here's dropbox on go:
The syntax is elegant, concurrencies consume an order of magnitude less in the memory stack and it has such a good performance benchmarking.
What excites me the most though is the TensorFlow wrapper for Go that Google has recently stated it's developing. It's a huge advance towards high-scale, real-time deep learning.
BTW, in a few days I'm giving an introductory workshop to backend development using Go, I'll talk about some of the examples mentioned for sure.
However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?