[xiaoma]

Go has been around nearly a decade with the backing of none less than Google and yet it remains a fairly fringe language. Elixir is on a much steeper adoption curve. So is Swift, but Elixir doesn't even have a tech heavyweight behind it.

[karma_vaccum123]

Wikipedia says Elixir first appeared in 2012, while Go first appeared in November 2009. Go is not that much older than Elixir...so I don't buy your analysis. By time Go was four years old, it had much greater adoption than Elixir does today.

[olalonde]

What leads you to believe Elixir is on a much steeper adoption curve? I'm a bit surprised by that statement because I've seen a lot of open source projects written in Go (Docker, IPFS, Kubernetes, etc.) but none in Elixir.

[mattdeboard]

> What leads you to believe...

Marketing.

[geodel]

Go 1.0 is released in March 2012 so it is not even half decade old.

[icedchai]

You know Go existed before 1.0, right?

[mappu]

The question was about adoption curves, and i think version number is a signalling factor in adoption.

Pre-1.0 version number would certainly hamper adoption in my $DAYJOB.

[xiaoma]

By that logic, Elixir is not even two years old!

Edit: karma_vaccum123 has greatly edited the gp comment but for the record, Google has been using golang since 2007.

[karma_vaccum123]

Find me one reference for Go in "use" at Google in 2007. The wikipedia page does not make this claim, it is only stated that this is when Go itself was being created.

[cjrd]

How did you determine the adoption curve?

[_ak]

Go has only been published in November 2009. Less than 7 years is now what I would call "nearly a decade".