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?
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/
- 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...".
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/
P.S. Other organizations using Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go