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Go

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Go's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
Go%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: golang
01000200030006 Jul20 Jul10 Aug7 Sept21 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
golang

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Go. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 2
  2. 17 Aug 5
  3. 24 Aug 7
  4. 31 Aug 3
  5. 7 Sept 5
  6. 14 Sept 8
  7. 21 Sept 6
  8. 28 Sept 6
  9. 5 Oct 5
  10. 12 Oct 10
  11. 19 Oct 10
  12. 26 Oct 8

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types184 pts · 191 comments · 31 Jul
  2. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go72 pts · 24 comments · 16 Sept
  3. Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily18 pts · 5 comments · 26 Sept
  4. Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang15 pts · 28 comments · 4 Aug
  5. AI Course for Golang incorrectly generates content about the Go board game4 pts · 0 comments · 12 Aug
  6. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang4 pts · 0 comments · 11 Oct
  7. Golang developers should try Odin4 pts · 0 comments · 13 Sept
  8. Show HN: Using Golang to Speed Up Monte Carlo Simulations3 pts · 2 comments · 26 Aug

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