Where do you get your stats about Go usage? My data points tell me that it whizzed past Clojure and is still on exponential growth path.<p>I&#x27;m tracking a list of companies that use go: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quicknotes.io&#x2F;n&#x2F;1XB0-Companies%20using%20Go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quicknotes.io&#x2F;n&#x2F;1XB0-Companies%20using%20Go</a>. I stopped adding to it because at this point it&#x27;s everyone and his mother.<p>If you go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplebyte.com&#x2F;ycombinator-startups#q=&amp;page=0&amp;refinements=%5B%5D&amp;ts=1462644965" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplebyte.com&#x2F;ycombinator-startups#q=&amp;page=0&amp;refine...</a>, which is a list of YC companies where you can filter by technology they claim to use, Go is currently ~4.3% (30 startups out of 697).<p>If you narrow that to just San Francisco, it&#x27;s 19 out 258 i.e. ~7.4%. I consider SF a leading indicator i.e. other parts of the country and the world will follow that usage growth.<p>I grant you that it&#x27;s still far behind Python&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;Java, but those things have exponential growth for a long time and 6 years is early. Those other languages took 10+ years to establish mainstream presence.<p>Judging by many metrics (number of significant software like Docker or Juju or CockroachDB, number of jobs available, number of Go-related conferences and meetups and their size), Go is easily past &quot;niche language&quot; like Earlang&#x2F;Haskell and even Clojure and Scala (both of which riding JVM wave) and well on its way to be a peer of Python&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;Java in the next 5-10 years.