[leftyspook]

I'd imagine not seeking employment at Google is a big part.

[tempest_]

Go is definitely used a lot more outside of google as of late.

Anecdotally I would say where a lot of companies would have used Java in the past they are now turning to go for their server-side/backend service implementations.

[danudey]

Also it feels like pretty much everything in the k8s/container/etc. space is go-related, which kind of makes sense.