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Ask HN: How does Google uses the Go Programming Language?
How does google use the go programming language? Is there any other organisation or startup using Go for any considerable software? Can I expect a large growth of the language, in terms of industry in 5 years?
- dvliman 14y agocloudflare.com uses go in production. http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare
- dknecht 14y agoThis is just the first of many projects CloudFlare has in the works being built with Go and is looking for more developers interested in Go.
- magnusgraviti 14y agoI believe yes. - programmers create new open source libraries for Go; - language got 1.0 version so it can be considered by enterprises for production; - programmers write articles about it so we have some buzz around it; - community grows with a set of books about Go. So I think the overall popularity will grow. It would be nice for Golang site to have some section about "companies using Go...".
- zedzedzed 14y agoYeah, I would like to see that section(like python's site has!)..
- rochoa 14y agoFor instance the golang.org website is running on Go: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_internally http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Google_using_go_interna... Google open sourced vitess for scaling out and coordinating (sharding + replication, schema rollouts) mysql databases, it seems they use it internally: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ P.S. Other organizations using Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go
- zedzedzed 14y agoGood to hear that. Vitess seems quite large. I think, maybe, they use it for other large internal stuff too. PS your ps is a great link... Is it complete?
- thiagodotfm 14y agoSoundcloud uses go.
- zedzedzed 14y agohow?