Go is quickly becoming _the_ defacto language for writing cloud management and tooling. Look no further than both docker[1] and kubernetes[2] for a very wide co

Go is quickly becoming _the_ defacto language for writing cloud management and tooling. Look no further than both docker[1] and kubernetes[2] for a very wide community. Kubernetes in specific has a very diverse community with people from dozens of companies rallying behind Google with some serious developer manpower behind it. Then there are companies like cloudflare[3] which while you might not have heard of them, run much of the underlying infrastructure that a large swath of the internet depends upon. Companies like hashicorp[4], makers of consul and packer. etc, etc. Go is opinionated, love it or hate it, it is here to stay. It fills a really nice gap between python and C and is a slam dunk for building distributed services, which is what it was designed for. [1] http://www.docker.com/ http://www.docker.com/ [2] http://kubernetes.io/ http://kubernetes.io/ [3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare/ [4] https://hashicorp.com/ https://hashicorp.com/