YAyahelc·Sep 4, 2012
Another option is Github, which ranks Go as the 27th most popular language. https://github.com/languages/Go
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| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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2 sourcesI've been thoroughly impressed watching web.go come together. It's now the top Go project on Github in every category they track: http://github.com/languages/Go
Personally I'm of the opinion that language expressiveness matters more than real world performance, but only to a limit. Go is definitely carving out a nice niche for performant systems-related apps.
And the fact that Smart Twitter serves 90k concurrent users from a VPS without breaking a sweat is freaking amazing. I suspect this is the reason the service can remain free.
(edit: err, for the "watched" categories)
In Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go