There is no doubt IBM is making big Swift announcements but IBM is also making huge contribution to Go. They are porting it to PowerPC / s390 architectures. The

There is no doubt IBM is making big Swift announcements but IBM is also making huge contribution to Go. They are porting it to PowerPC / s390 architectures. They are also contributing Go based blockchain implementation (~50k LOC) to hyperledger project. IBM/SAP swift support looks like riding along with marketing of Apple/OSX/ios. These tech consulting giants will definitely make a top-down push for swift but grabbing developer mindshare might not be so easy. At least IBM swift on server support looks Websphere like play. At one point it was a big business or may be still is but given alternative huge number of developers will prefer alternative. Unlike Java/Swift which are often introduced or talked by executives at Oracle/Apple, Go is not a corporate mandated language and Google execs do not talk about it like android. Google I/O does not have any Go specific talks. The biggest Go conf is organized by 3rd party. Go influence need not be over or under emphasized. Hugely influential cloud based projects such as Docker/rkt/etcd/kubernetes/juju and many more are written in Go.