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Ask HN: How does Google uses the Go Programming Language?

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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?

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magnusgraviti
I believe yes.

- 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.

So I think the overall popularity will grow.

It would be nice for Golang site to have some section about "companies using Go...".

zedzedzed
Yeah, I would like to see that section(like python's site has!)..
rochoa
For instance the golang.org website is running on Go: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_interna...

Google open sourced vitess for scaling out and coordinating (sharding + replication, schema rollouts) mysql databases, it seems they use it internally: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

P.S. Other organizations using Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

zedzedzed
Good to hear that. Vitess seems quite large. I think, maybe, they use it for other large internal stuff too.

PS your ps is a great link... Is it complete?