The Go language is 4 years old.

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The go language is four years old until November 10, 2013!

The go language is a new language designed by 2007 Google engineer Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer. Released by Google in 2009.

On the official Go Language blog, Andrew gerrand A review of go development and growth.

The images posted on this official blog show the number of users searching for Golang in Google over the past 4 years. It is worth noting that the search volume soared in March 2012 when Go 1.0 was released. In the past two years, go language growth momentum is also very fierce.

The development of the Go language community

The go language wiki contains hundreds of thousands of open source projects developed using the Go language, among which the more popular projects are Docker, Packer, bitly NSQ platform, canonical JuJu architecture system, raft package for raft distributed conformance Protocol, Biogo, Gorillawebtoolkit, Groupcache, Mozilla's Heka, KV and QL lightweight storage systems, Sky performance database.

Outside the open source project, many business projects also use go language development, in the Go user wiki page There are many successful cases, such as:

• CloudFlare completely use go to build their distributed DNS service;
• There are many systems in the SoundCloud service that are developed using the Go language;
• The Ngrok service allows Web developers to remotely access their development environment, and its author, Alanshreve, says that the success of Ngrok is largely attributed to choosing go as a development language, referencing the HTTP library of go, and having excellent features that are efficient, cross-platform, and easy to deploy.
• Poptip provides social analytics services, and its product managers say they started with go writing a single service to do the next experiment, and finally their entire architecture began to use go for development.

In addition, there are seven of cattle cloud storage, the core services are fully implemented in the go language.

Finally, Andrew Gerrand thanked the developers who contributed to the go language on behalf of the entire development team, and said they would be committed to go forward and develop.

Via Golang Blog