Go programming language team releases the Go 2016 survey results
Developers are beginning to program in Go both at work and outside of work. Go is an open-source programming language Google created in 2007. The programming language’s team has released its 2016 survey results, which revealed 89% of respondents are using Go.
Of that 89%, 36% use Go both at home and at work, 27% use Go only at home, and 23% use Go only at work.
“Users are overwhelmingly happy with Go: they agree that they would recommend Go to others by a ratio of 19:1, that they’d prefer to use Go for their next project (14:1), and that Go is working well for their teams (18:1). Fewer users agree that Go is critical to their company’s success (2.5:1),” Steve Francia, technical program manager for the Go team, wrote in a post .
When asked what language developers would use both in terms of expertise and preference, the top five languages were Go, Python, Java, JavaScript and C. Go was also recently won the TIOBE Index’s 2016 programming language of the year award for its increased interest. “The main drivers behind Go’s success are its ease of learning and pragmatic nature.
