There is no doubt IBM is making big Swift announcements but IBM is also making huge contribution to Go. They are porting it to PowerPC &#x2F; s390 architectures. They are also contributing Go based blockchain implementation (~50k LOC) to hyperledger project.<p>IBM&#x2F;SAP swift support looks like riding along with marketing of Apple&#x2F;OSX&#x2F;ios. These tech consulting giants will definitely make a top-down push for swift but grabbing developer mindshare might not be so easy. At least IBM swift on server support looks Websphere like play. At one point it was a big business or may be still is but given alternative huge number of developers will prefer alternative.<p>Unlike Java&#x2F;Swift which are often introduced or talked by executives at Oracle&#x2F;Apple, Go is not a corporate mandated language and Google execs do not talk about it like android. Google I&#x2F;O does not have any Go specific talks. The biggest Go conf is organized by 3rd party.<p>Go influence need not be over or under emphasized. Hugely influential cloud based projects such as Docker&#x2F;rkt&#x2F;etcd&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;juju and many more are written in Go.