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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline "In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher serv
by shaftoe 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline
"In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers"
https://blog.golang.org/8years https://blog.golang.org/8years
"Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 with 52% growth over the previous year. In growth, Go swapped places with Javascript, which fell to the second spot with 44%."
- Jaruzel 9y agoAnd? Gopher (the protocol) is not dead yet. There's an active retro community keeping it alive and developing it. Just because it's no longer mainstream doesn't mean it should be erased from our lexicon. How about I invent something and call it COBOL, is that OK? If we expect our industry to ever grow up, we need to respect its history, and not keep overwriting it.