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> Go is holding at nearly 10%: it underwent a fast rise but seems to have plateaued starting in 2018. I imagine that the imminent release of Go 2.0 could help.
by flanked-evergl 4y ago
> Go is holding at nearly 10%: it underwent a fast rise but seems to have plateaued starting in 2018. I imagine that the imminent release of Go 2.0 could help.
Is Go 2.0 imminent? Any sources and details of this?
- benhoyt 4y agoNo: definitely not imminent, and probably never. Originally "Go 2" was the name for a real version 2.0 where the Go team would make breaking changes and fix any warts. However, over time they decided a big breaking release wouldn't be necessary (or a good idea), and decided just to keep iterating on 1.x in a backwards-compatible way, even for large features like the addition of generics in 1.18. At this point "Go 2" is a "useful moniker" for an abstract future version of Go with additional features. See https://go.dev/blog/go2-here-we-come https://go.dev/blog/go2-here-we-come I think this is great for stability, and as a result Go looks to be avoiding the Python 2 to 3 ten-year-migration.