The 2017 Octoverse edition from Github marks Go as the 9th most popular programming language, ranking higher than C and various other popular options. It’s Github’s fatest growing language of the 2017 top ten with a noted 52% growth over 2016. This means that Go has surpassed Javascript – which fell down to second place with 44% growth – to achieve first place.
In the developer survey issued by Stack Overflow in 2017, Go placed on both the top 5 most wanted and top 5 most loved languages. It was, in fact, the only language to place on both lists. Go users really love it and people who don’t use Go really want to. A year ago, Go was ranked 55th on the index, while it reached a previous high score of 2.325% and 13th place in January. Tiobe has pointed out Go’s rapid growth and began to question where this promising language will go next, asking, “Is Go really able to join the big stars in the programming language world and leave languages such as JavaScript and Python behind? We will see.
Go is the new open-soure Google programming language. It’s concurrency-friendly and increasingly popular with developers. It has finally cracked the top 10 of the Tiobe language popularity index and it’s still growing. Go has an all-time high rating of 2.363%, making it the tenth most popular programming language in this month’s index. This ranks it as superior to programming languages like Swift, Perl, Visual Basic, and Ruby. This index – from the Tiobe Programming Community – ranks programming languages based on their popularity via the frequency of their searches on engines such as Google, Baidu, Wikipedia, and Bing.
Go is celebrated for its easy learnability and concurrency capabilities. It has featured in the Docker container system’s development since its conception at the tail-end of 2007. Version 1 launched in March of 2012 and was named “Language of the Year” by Tiobe thanks to achieving the highest growth in their index in 2016.