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There is a fallacy in this quote: "The state of the Go ecosystem after only four years is astounding. Compare Go in 2013 to Python in 1995 or Java in 1999. Or C

There is a fallacy in this quote: "The state of the Go ecosystem after only four years is astounding. Compare Go in 2013 to Python in 1995 or Java in 1999. Or C++ in 1987!" This comparison is more than unfair, in the 90's only a few people had an internet connection. Or Do you want to create Open Source projects by mail? Git or Subversion didn't even exist back then. Now imagine in 1987...

laureny 13y ago
> The state of the Go ecosystem after only four years is astounding. Compare Go in 2013 to Python in 1995 or Java in 1999. Or C++ in 1987!" This comparison is more than unfair, It's more than unfair since they don't show any numbers. At all. Not for Go, not for Java, not for anything. The graph is cute but it's not even a number of installations, projects on githubs or lines of source code: it's Google searches. Searches measure nothing more than buzz. I bet Google Wave showed similar curves facing up for months. If the Go team had hard and impressive numbers, I bet they would show them. The fact that they don't makes me think that Go is not seeing a lot of traction, besides a few Python and Ruby programmers.