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Come from china, a golang user, for 2 years now.

golang.org and Google is blocked in china by government, so, Google trends and golang.org traffic from China maybe miss leading.

Go is quite popular in china, the reasons can be:

1. A few companies is based on Golang, like qiniu.com. 2. More and more companies are adopting Golang, since it's very powerful for writing network servers. These companies are facing very fast traffic growth. Golang's efficiency and expressiveness are well known. It just fills the gap. 3. China has many software developers spread in a few cities(Beijing, Shanhai, Hangzhou, etc). News spread quite effective among them.



Ah, interesting! The rapid increase in traffic for Chinese sites easily makes a lot of sense, when thinking about it!

With 1 billion users in a single language/culture, I guess successful sites might indeed grow quite fast, right?

... and there, a compiled fast language is paramount, no? :)


compiled fast is quite helpful. The standard lib is a also +1, very useful for network services.




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