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You might be, but as the parent said, it’s not likely. I think that’s a fair statement, out of 100K engineers or whatever it is, I’d estimate less than 10K of t
by rrdharan 3y ago
You might be, but as the parent said, it’s not likely. I think that’s a fair statement, out of 100K engineers or whatever it is, I’d estimate less than 10K of them are writing primarily golang code.
- iainmerrick 3y agoWhat do you base that estimate on?
- rrdharan 3y agoI didn’t pull any stats but I’ve been working at Google for most of the last 10 years (in two stints). And actually I think even 10K is a very generous upper bound, really if I were betting money I’d peg it at like maybe 2000 engineers that use golang as their primary language and a big chunk of those are SWE-SRE? There's just _way_ more Java and C++ than there is golang…
- bananapub 3y agoon the fact that most of the code in prod isn't Go. anyone working there can look at the CL statistics dashboard to see what's being written, and a different dashboard to see the distribution of binary sources. Go is very popular in some niches (a semi-mandate in SRE produced a bunch of it) and not used at all elsewhere.