| From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. They | originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not | to the level that would require assembler or even C. | | What else have folks observed? I'm sitting far on the sidelines. I've never used Go or Swift. From a distance, they look similar. Swift seems to have a lot of take-up in the iOS world. Anything else would be going against the grain. Swift has been released to the world, but I don't hear of it being used much outside of iOS (I might be deaf). I'm not sure why. I know that I don't trust Apple to leave anything open. Maybe the library is second-class outside of iOS. Go isn't supported as much as I'd expect by Google. For example, TensorFlow no longer supports Go -- Python all the way. I don't even know if Android SDK supports Go. The game of Go is all about capturing territory. I think programming language adoption has similarities. Google's AlphaGo is the best Go player in the world.