How does google use the go programming language? Is there any other organisation or startup using Go for any considerable software? Can I expect a large growth of the language, in terms of industry in 5 years?
For instance the golang.org website is running on Go: <a href="http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_internally" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_interna...</a><p>Google open sourced vitess for scaling out and coordinating (sharding + replication, schema rollouts) mysql databases, it seems they use it internally: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/vitess/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/vitess/</a><p>P.S. Other organizations using Go: <a href="http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go" rel="nofollow">http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go</a>
I believe yes.<p>- programmers create new open source libraries for Go;
- language got 1.0 version so it can be considered by enterprises for production;
- programmers write articles about it so we have some buzz around it;
- community grows with a set of books about Go.<p>So I think the overall popularity will grow.<p>It would be nice for Golang site to have some section about "companies using Go...".
cloudflare.com uses go in production. <a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare" rel="nofollow">http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare</a>