>What is it being used for? HTTP servers? Yes, that is one big area - networked servers - a superset of HTTP servers. The Google site that serves the Chrome br

>What is it being used for? HTTP servers? Yes, that is one big area - networked servers - a superset of HTTP servers. The Google site that serves the Chrome browser is supposed to be a Go app, and I've read Google uses Go a lot internally. (I'm sure Rob Pike and his team must be using it, after developing it for that very purpose.) Reading up on the goals of Go will give some insight into that. Part of the reason was that they wanted it to write big systems at Google, including networked ones, and wanted a better experience than they had with C++ (build times [1] and also other issues). Rob Pike has written some about it, others may have too). [1] This video that I blogged about: Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-panel-at-langnext.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-pane... has many interesting language-related discussions; one of them is the discussion about the build times of C++ vs. those of more modern language. There are concrete reasons why C++ build times are relatively so large - the use of include files is part of the reason - those are discussed some in the video, between the panelists, including some of the language (co-)inventors, such as C++'s Bjarne Stroustrup, Go's Rob Pike and D's Walter Bright. There is a nice moment or two near the end where Stroustrup responds about C++ build times - okay, won't spoil it for you and others - go see it :) Command-line tools is another area where Go is used a lot. Getting the convenience of deploying a simple single binary (maybe at the most a config file or two with it) even by just copying to the deploy target - unlike what you have to do with interpreted languages like Python and Ruby (unless you use something like PyInstaller or py2exe for Python, but that is not officially supported and may or not work for all Python apps [2]). This gives us back some of the convenience of older compiled languages like C where this was the normal way of deploying - but with some benefits over languages such as C (see Go vs. C topics), plus goroutines, channels, etc., I guess. Though I have not come across any examples of what things command line apps using goroutines and channels could be used for - it would be interesting to hear/read about some. I mean apart from a few somewhat obvious ones such as a web client to download multiple URLs in different goroutines, concurrently. [2] I've tried out PyInstaller on a few Python apps, including command-line apps, and a simple wxPython app or two - it did work okay for those, in the limited testing I did. Edit: fixed typos, added a few points.