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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.