Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing.
I'm personally pretty happy with that, because for all its faults it does feel like a fun language to program in, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.
I'm always a little surprised that Java is number one. I know it has a lot of enterprise support, but is there some bias in the survey here?
I'm not sure if there's a bias in the results. But it seems that there shouldn't be any bias towards a particular programming language since they have an algorithm for computing the scores based on search queries on popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc.
> Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing.
I second that and although I've done a number of side projects using golang, if I want to make a presentation of the language , I wouldn't quite know for sure what are the best selling points.
I know it puts a great emphasis on concurrency and their model is rock solid and easy to reason about, but still, given that most of our work is web related and 95% of the time we have to manipulate various resources that persist to some database, I don't have a clear reason on why to choose go over php for example.
[+] [-] cixin|9 years ago|reply
I'm personally pretty happy with that, because for all its faults it does feel like a fun language to program in, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.
I'm always a little surprised that Java is number one. I know it has a lot of enterprise support, but is there some bias in the survey here?
[+] [-] pfzero|9 years ago|reply
> Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing. I second that and although I've done a number of side projects using golang, if I want to make a presentation of the language , I wouldn't quite know for sure what are the best selling points.
I know it puts a great emphasis on concurrency and their model is rock solid and easy to reason about, but still, given that most of our work is web related and 95% of the time we have to manipulate various resources that persist to some database, I don't have a clear reason on why to choose go over php for example.