[lostmsu]

Huh? I am sure 80%+ of AWS is Java and probably 90%+ of Azure is C#. I doubt it is going to change any time soon. Kubernetes is but one successful cloud product out of Google, and it just happened to be written in Go. There are even rumors in that thread about it starting as Java.

[jrockway]

80% of AWS existed before Go was invented. Why would they rewrite that stuff? They're already #1. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose.

I think to get an idea of what mindshare looks like, you have to look at people that started from nothing today. These are the people that are making architecture decisions with an eye to the future, growth, and immediate productivity. When you're inside a huge org, you have to think about what is easiest to integrate with, and what skills you can get from other teams. At a company that's 80% Java, that's Java. It would be insane to switch, and likely to fail.

[khuey]

Go is reasonably big on the open source side of the cloud space.

[lostmsu]

Not sure what you mean by "open source side" of the cloud space. PostgreSQL is still C, and Mongo is still C++ + Node.js.

[zeroc8]

Sure, but Go has enabled a lot of great software in a very short amount of time. If you are in the cloud business, you'd better take a serious look at Go if you don't want to be out competed. It hits a sweet spot between performance and ease of use - feels almost like Python, performs almost like C++.

[tapirl]

The two don't belong to "cloud infrastructure".

[lostmsu]

The conversation is about "cloud space".

Also, by restricting to open source you dropped 2 biggest and successful players.

[wikibob]

Word on the street is that AWS is writing more and more Rust