From a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a

From a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a bunch of Chinese ones I haven't heard of (of which there are many, considering that China is most likely Go's largest adopter (http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china) http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china)). Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Zynga, Yahoo, BBC, VMware, Uber, GitHub, Getty Images, Twitter, Stack Exchange, Docker, SpaceX, Baidu, Qiniu, Imgur, CloudFlare, Bitbucket, Dell, Twitch, Dailymotion, bitly, Cisco, Verizon, Dropbox, Adobe, New York Times, HP, Canonical, Cloud Foundry, 99designs, BuySellAds, CoreOS, MongoDB, Basecamp, Rackspace, Booking, MalwareBytes, Kingsoft, Iron.io, OpenShift, Heroku, Square, Spring, Tumblr, VMWare, Symantec, Comcast, CBS, SendGrid, Digitally Imported, Pivotal, Couchbase, Koding, Shopify, Shutterfly, MaxCDN, Linden Lab, SolarWinds, IMVU, EMC, Teradata, and I'm sure many more which I'm unaware of, are all using Go to some capacity.