I recall reading a similar post about Node.js a few years ago. For what it's worth, it might just be that China's programming community is growing (and interact

I recall reading a similar post about Node.js a few years ago. For what it's worth, it might just be that China's programming community is growing (and interacting more with the West). The Alexa map is actually not too dissimilar from a population by country map. If I had to hypothesise about golang in particular, I'd say it might have something with Docker (Baidu is using Docker for its PaaS for example) although it's difficult to say if the relationship is the other way around.