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Re:Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again by littlestymaar on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:36AM (#15914075)
> Among the languages that came in last 10 years Go is most popular with exception of maybe Swift.

Go is indeed one of the most popular of the last 10 years, but I don't think it's the most popular one. Swift is way ahead (because of the iOS walled garden), and Typescript is probably more popular than Go (or at least in the same ballpark).

> But among non corporate driven language Go is definitely on top.

Go, «non corporate driven», really ? OK it's not «corporate-driven» like Java, but I don't think anyone would be using Go if Google wasn't behind it. I really think the impact of marketing in Go's success is bigger than its value-proposition (I'm not saying that Go doesn't have a value-proposition, I'm just arguing that marketing played a really big role in its adoption). Consider for instance the microscopic mindshare that Pony[1] has, despite being «Go from the 21th century» with a sound type system and a data-race-free concurrency model.

[1] https://www.ponylang.org/

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Re:Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again by klodolph on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:24AM (#15914769)
Marketing aside, people evaluate languages for their community. The lack of a community is something that can be fixed by marketing, but marketing isn't necessary to create it.

Pony is also pre-1.0, and it doesn't look much like Go to me.

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