[eecc]

Where I live and work, golang is only used at one major client (because they’re US based, the decision must have happened elsewhere.)

Everything else is Spring Boot (java), Akka (Scala) or Nodejs. Apparently nobody wants to embrace a language designed for offshoring, so no Meetups, noisy user groups and so on... even Clojure is more popular

[K0nserv]

Golang is a language designed for offshoring? It was invented at one of the largest engineering orgs to be used in house

[pjmlp]

In the words of Rob Pike:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike 1"

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical. – Rob Pike 2"

So a language that makes it quite easy for enterprises to deal with developers as cogs.

Source:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

[foldr]

I don't see what that has to do with offshoring. Developers of the kind Rob Pike is referring to exist everywhere in the world.

[pjmlp]

I do enterprise consulting, in projects which happen to always have some kind of offshoring involved.

Projects where the languages are easy to pick up and anyone can do it, are always the first on the pipeline to give away.

[foldr]

Are you really saying that Rob Pike is part of some kind of conspiracy to offshore all the coding that's currently being done at Google SF? Golang has been around for a while now, and there's no sign of that happening.

[pjmlp]

No, I am just stating that the goals of having the language designed for such target audience, can have that as side effect.

Just like it happened with Java.

[wwweston]

Exactly. :)

[singhrac]

Software is more than just language features. Rob undoubtedly meant that he wanted it to be quick to be understood by a vast majority of Googlers, so that they can focus on writing good software.

[pjmlp]

Yet Google is known for having one of the hardest hiring processes, where they even give the candidates CS subjects to study before the interview.

[shaklee3]

He really said they're not capable?