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Re:Why is Golang popular in China? by eksurfus on Monday January 12, 2015 @08:39AM (#8873781)
It was mentioned at GopherCon that many developers use Windows in China. Golang's ability to compile on Windows makes it a natural choice.

Most Chinese websites are built on the Windows platform [1]. Windows XP and Windows 7 have a 60.7 percent and 33.4 percent market share respectively (94% of the Chinese market) as of May 2014 [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-Chinese-developers-pref...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-os-replaceable-by-chine...

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Re:Why is Golang popular in China? by Someone1234 on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:24AM (#8874294)
If it was primarily about Windows, wouldn't .Net or C++/Win32 be of more interest? Microsoft has no official Go support as far as I know.
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