[tony]

> responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption.

In terms of proliferating Go I think that statement is fair. spf13 is like brand name in open source.

I recall years back on GitHub, spf13 was like a name you were guaranteed to come across if you were sinking your teeth into Go. I ended up using cast / viper: https://github.com/tony/vcsync/commit/a76681b. (Not that I'm anything special at golang)

[pm90]

To be clear, nobody is claiming that he didn’t write viper, or that he isn’t a brand name in OSS. The claim is that he was responsible for “taking go language from niche technologies to widespread adoption”, which seems like a pretty big one to make.

No doubt his contributions did in fact help that process, but as I read it, the claim asserts him as the driver of that process, which he was not.

[stackpush]

I mean not only did he create Cobra and Viper, two of the most popular Go libraries, but he also led the Go project for the last 6 years.

Did you not read the post?

The post is full of evidence of the things that he did or the team that he led did that drove Go's growth.

He definitely was a major contributor to Go's widespread adoption both as an OSS contributor and as a project leader.