[Someone1234]

Is Go FotM? I'd be lying if I said no.

However that being as it may, Go is see legitimately strong growth in China and reasonable growth in the US.

It also fills a market gap: A native machine compiler which isn't insecure by design (e.g. C/C++). Rust is also competing in that space and has a very strong design (even if Go appears to have gained more market share at the moment).

If you listen to TIOBE then Golang isn't doing very well, if you read almost any other popularity metric it is looking a lot better e.g. http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/06/13/language-rankings-6-14...

Plus most of these ignore China which is dumb.