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+Nine years of Go
+10 Nov 2018
+Tags: community, birthday
+
+Steve Francia
+
+* Introduction
+
+Today marks the ninth anniversary of the day we open-sourced our initial sketch of Go.
+On each anniversary we like to take time to reflect on what has happened over the past year.
+The past 12 months have been a breakout year for the Go language and community.
+
+* Go Love & Adoption
+
+Thanks to all of you, 2018 was an amazing year for Go!
+In multiple industry surveys Gophers expressed how happy they were using Go,
+and many non-Go developers indicated they intended to learn Go before any other language.
+
+In [[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted][Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey]],
+Go retained it’s coveted spot in both the top 5 most loved and top 5 most wanted languages.
+People who use Go love it, and people who aren’t using Go want to.
+
+In [[https://www.activestate.com/developer-survey-2018-open-source-runtime-pains][ActiveState’s 2018 Developer Survey]],
+Go topped the charts with 36% of users responding they were “Extremely Satisfied” using Go
+and 61% responding “Very Satisfied” or better.
+
+[[https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/][JetBrains’s 2018 Developer Survey]] awarded Go
+the “Most promising language” with 12% of respondents using Go today and 16% intending to use Go in the future.
+
+In [[https://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2018/][HackerRank’s 2018 Developer Survey]],
+38% of developers responded that they were intending to learn Go next.
+
+We are excited about all of our new gophers and actively working to improve our educational and community resources.
+
+* Go Community
+
+It’s hard to believe that it’s only been five years since
+the first Go conferences and Go meetups.
+We’ve seen major growth in this area of community leadership over the last year.
+There are now over 20 [[https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Conferences][Go conferences]]
+and over 300 [[https://www.meetup.com/topics/golang/][Go-related meetups]] spanning the globe.
+
+Thanks to the hard work put into these many conferences and meetups,
+there have been hundreds of great talks this year.
+Here are a few of our favorite talks specifically discussing the growth of our community
+and how we can better support gophers worldwide.
+
+- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaDY0ChvOQ][Writing Accessible Go]], by Julia Ferraioli at GopherCon
+- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yMXs9TRvVI][The Importance of Beginners]], by Natalie Pistunovich at GopherCon
+- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_KcpgxcFyU][The Legacy of Go, Part 2]], by Carmen Andoh at GothamGo
+- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1mCGKwlYY][Growing a Community of Gophers]], by Cassandra Salisbury at Gopherpalooza
+
+On that theme, this year we also [[https://blog.golang.org/conduct-2018][revised our code of conduct]]
+to better support inclusivity in the Go community.
+
+The Go community is truly global.
+At GopherCon Europe in Iceland this past summer, gophers literally spanned the gap between the continents.
+
+.image 9years-iceland.jpg 338 800
+
+_(Photo_by_Winter_Francia.)_
+
+* Go 2
+
+After five years of experience with Go 1, we’ve started looking at
+what we should change about Go to better support
+[[https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article][programming at scale]].
+
+Last spring, we published a [[https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal][draft design for Go modules]],
+which provide an integrated mechanism for versioning and package distribution.
+The most recent Go release, Go 1.11, included
+[[https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#modules][preliminary support for modules]].
+
+Last summer we published
+[[https://blog.golang.org/go2draft][early draft designs]]
+for how Go 2 might better support error values, error handling, and generic programming.
+
+We are excited about refining these designs with the community’s help as we work
+[[https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2][toward Go 2]].
+
+* Go Contributors
+
+The Go project has been increasing in the number of contributions from the community for several years.
+The project hit a major milestone in Q2 2018 when, for the first time,
+we had more contributions coming from the community than the Go team.
+
+.image 9years-graph.png 371 600
+
+* Thank You
+
+On a personal note, from the entire Go team,
+we want to sincerely thank all of you.
+We feel privileged to be able to work on the Go project
+and are grateful to the many gophers around the world who have joined us.
+
+We are especially thankful for the thousands of volunteers
+who help through mentorship, organizing, contributing,
+and supporting your fellow gophers.
+You have made Go what it is today.