I'll never forget when I was a freshman in college in 2010, someone from the language team at Google came to give a talk on this new little Go programming langu

I'll never forget when I was a freshman in college in 2010, someone from the language team at Google came to give a talk on this new little Go programming language they were working on. (For the life of my I can't remember who it was and that makes me very sad.) And ironically at the time my biggest thought was seeing the hand-drawn gopher and thinking "THAT'S the logo they're going with?!" At that time it was this cool but incredibly niche new thing...and now that gopher is iconic and the language is extremely popular. Who would have guessed what it would become? I think becoming the go-to language in the cloud native/kubernetes landscape has really helped the popularity as well. Personally between Go, Ruby, and some Bash I never feel tempted to reach for any other languages to get my work done.