Porsche’s sales are a tiny fraction of auto sales, but most in the industry consider it to be the best platform - and only wish they could emulate / afford to be in that conversation.
> On Jan 16, 2020, at 2:10 PM, Liam <networkimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Open source is a rapidly growing movement across virtually all languages, but > still a small minority of all software. So the Trends graph is more revealing > than Github activity. Assembly language use on Github also increased by ~150% > > There's no question that Go use is growing rather quickly. It's the mindshare > that I'm preoccupied with, because I'd expect that to impact Alphabet Inc's > budgeting calculus. > > On a golang-dev thread recently, I raised the point that talking about "Go 2" > may have created a widespread misperception (esp among non-users) that a > backwards incompatible "v2.0" language is planned. > > This comment on the last Redmonk survey is telling about Go's public > perception: > > Go (-1): For the second run in a row, Go dropped one spot, this time out of a > tie with R for 15th back to 16th on our list. To be sure, placement in the > top twenty is by itself a remarkable achievement; many popular, widely used > and beloved languages lay well behind it. But for all of its credibility and > usage in widely used, popular projects, Go’s lack of versatility – perceived > or otherwise – has limited its upside. Go has remained a solidly top twenty > language, but has never placed higher than 14th, and that for only a single > quarter. It will also be interesting to see if any of the controversy > surrounding Go’s future direction – and the community’s input or lack thereof > into that – has any observable impact on the language’s traction moving > forward. > > From https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/07/18/language-rankings-6-19/ > >> On Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:33:36 AM UTC-8, Amnon Baron Cohen wrote: >> Go was originally conceived as a niche language. And if it does what we >> need, then I don't think >> we need to be particularly bothered if other languages are more "popular". >> >> But when looking at language popularity, I am not sure that the number of >> google searches is the most meaningful metric. >> >> Lines of code on github could be more interesting. >> >> FWIW: Githubs octoverse shows shows a 147% growth in Go usage last year. >> >> And more interesting growth stats can be found on the Go blog >> https://blog.golang.org/8years >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/5f40c9c1-2ca3-419e-b410-f0f835d63d04%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/0920AC1A-AFAC-482E-BFFD-45CE36ACAE11%40ix.netcom.com.
