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mode 100644 content/survey2017/why-not.svg diff --git a/content/survey2017-results.article b/content/survey2017-results.article new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c64cf07 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/survey2017-results.article @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Go 2017 Survey Results +26 Feb 2018 +Tags: survey, community + +Steve Francia +spf@golang.org + +* Thank you + +This post summarizes the result of our 2017 user survey along with commentary +and insights. It also draws key comparisons between the results of the 2016 and +2017 survey. + +This year we had 6,173 survey respondents, 70% more than the 3,595 we had in the +[[https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results][Go 2016 User Survey]]. In +addition, it also had a slightly higher completion rate (84% → 87%) and a +higher response rate to most of the questions. We believe that survey length is +the main cause of this improvement as the 2017 survey was shortened in response +to feedback that the 2016 survey was too long. + +We are grateful to everyone who provided their feedback through the survey to +help shape the future of Go. + +* Programming background + +For the first time, more survey respondents say they are paid to write Go +than say they write it outside work. This indicates a significant shift in +Go's user base and in its acceptance by companies for professional software +development. + +The areas people who responded to the survey work in is mostly consistent with +last year, however, mobile and desktop applications have fallen significantly. + +Another important shift: the #1 use of Go is now writing API/RPC services (65%, +up 5% over 2016), taking over the top spot from writing CLI tools in Go (63%). +Both take full advantage of Go's distinguishing features and are key elements of +modern cloud computing. As more companies adopt Go, we expect these two uses +of Go to continue to thrive. + +Most of the metrics reaffirm things we have learned in prior years. Go +programmers still overwhelmingly prefer Go. As more time passes Go users are +deepening their experience in Go. While Go has increased its lead among Go +developers, the order of language rankings remains quite consistent with last +year. + +.html survey2017/background.html + +* Go usage + +In nearly every question around the usage and perception of Go, Go has +demonstrated improvement over our prior survey. Users are happier using Go, and +a greater percentage prefer using Go for their next project. + +When asked about the biggest challenges to their own personal use of Go, users +clearly conveyed that lack of dependency management and lack of generics were +their two biggest issues, consistent with 2016. In 2017 we laid a foundation to +be able to address these issues. We improved our proposal and development +process with the addition of +[[https://golang.org/wiki/ExperienceReports][Experience Reports]] which is +enabling the project to gather and obtain feedback critical to making these +significant changes. We also made +[[https://golang.org/doc/go1.10#build][sigificant changes]] under the hood in +how Go obtains, and builds packages. This is foundational work essential to +addressing our dependency management needs. + +These two issues will continue to be a major focus of the project through 2018. + +In this section we asked two new questions. Both center around what +developers are doing with Go in a more granular way than we've previously asked. +We hope this data will provide insights for the Go project and ecosystem. + +Since last year there has been an increase of the percentage of people who +identified "Go lacks critical features" as the reason they don't use Go more and +a decreased percentage who identified "Go not being an appropriate fit". Other +than these changes, the list remains consistent with last year. + + +.html survey2017/usage.html + +* Development and deployment + +We asked programmers which operating systems they develop Go on; the ratios of +their responses remain consistent with last year. 64% of respondents say +they use Linux, 49% use MacOS, and 18% use Windows, with multiple choices +allowed. + +Continuing its explosive growth, VSCode is now the most popular editor among +Gophers. IntelliJ/GoLand also saw significant increase in usage. These largely +came at the expense of Atom and Submlime Text which saw relative usage drops. +This question had a 6% higher response rate from last year. + +Survey respondents demonstrated significantly higher satisfaction with Go +support in their editors over 2016 with the ratio of satisfied to dissatisfied +doubling (9:1 → 18:1). Thank you to everyone who worked on Go editor support +for all your hard work. + +Go deployment is roughly evenly split between privately managed servers and +hosted cloud servers. For Go applications, Google Cloud services saw significant +increase over 2016. For Non-Go applications, AWS Lambda saw the largest increase in use. + +.html survey2017/dev.html + +* Working Effectively + +We asked how strongly people agreed or disagreed with various statements about +Go. All questions are repeated from last year with the addition of one new +question which we introduced to add further clarifaction around how users are +able to both find and *use* Go libraries. + +All responses either indicated a small improvement or are comparable to 2016. + +As in 2016, the most commonly requested missing library for Go is one for +writing GUIs though the demand is not as pronounced as last year. No other +missing library registered a significant number of responses. + +The primary sources for finding answers to Go questions are the Go web site, +Stack Overflow, and reading source code directly. Stack Overflow showed a small +increase from usage over last year. + +The primary sources for Go news are still the Go blog, Reddit’s /r/golang and +Twitter; like last year, there may be some bias here since these are also how +the survey was announced. + +.html survey2017/effective.html + +* The Go Project + +59% of respondents expressed interest in contributing in some way to the Go +community and projects, up from 55% last year. Respondents also indicated that +they felt much more welcome to contribute than in 2016. Unfortunately, +respondents indicated only a very tiny improvement in understanding how to +contribute. We will be actively working with the community and its leaders +to make this a more accessible process. + +Respondents showed an increase in agreement that they are confident in the +leadership of the Go project (9:1 → 11:1). They also showed a small increase in +agreement that the project leadership understands their needs (2.6:1 → 2.8:1) +and in agreement that they feel comfortable approaching project leadership with +questions and feedback (2.2:1 → 2.4:1). While improvements were made, this +continues to be an area of focus for the project and its leadership going +forward. We will continue to work to improve our understanding of user needs and +approachability. + +We tried some [[https://blog.golang.org/8years#TOC_1.3.][new ways]] to engage +with users in 2017 and while progress was made, we are still working on making these +solutions scalable for our growing community. + +.html survey2017/project.html + +* Community + +At the end of the survey, we asked some demographic questions. + +The country distribution of responses is largely similar to last year with minor +fluctuations. Like last year, the distribution of countries is similar to the +visits to golang.org, though some Asian countries remain under-represented in +the survey. + +Perhaps the most significant improvement over 2016 came from the question which +asked to what degree do respondents agreed with the statement, "I feel welcome +in the Go community". Last year the agreement to disagreement ratio was 15:1. In +2017 this ratio nearly doubled to 25:1. + +An important part of a community is making everyone feel welcome, especially +people from under-represented demographics. We asked an optional question about +identification across a few underrepresented groups. We had a 4% increase in +response rate over last year. The percentage of each underrepresented group +increased over 2016, some quite significantly. + +Like last year, we took the results of the statement “I feel welcome in the Go +community” and broke them down by responses to the various underrepresented +categories. Like the whole, most of the respondents who identified as +underrepresented also felt significantly more welcome in the Go community than +in 2016. Respondents who identified as a woman showed the most significant +improvement with an increase of over 400% in the ratio of agree:disagree to this +statement (3:1 → 13:1). People who identified as ethnically or racially +underrepresented had an increase of over 250% (7:1 → 18:1). Like last year, +those who identified as not underrepresented still had a much higher percentage +of agreement to this statement than those identifying from underrepresented +groups. + +We are encouraged by this progress and hope that the momentum continues. + +The final question on the survey was just for fun: what’s your favorite Go +keyword? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most popular response was `go`, followed by +`defer`, `func`, `interface`, and `select`, unchanged from last year. + +.html survey2017/community.html + +Finally, on behalf of the entire Go project, we are grateful for everyone who +has contributed to our project, whether by being a part of our great community, +by taking this survey or by taking an interest in Go. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/survey2017/about-me-comp.svg b/content/survey2017/about-me-comp.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee7e73b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/survey2017/about-me-comp.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +20162017The following apply to me: (multiple choice)4,201 (67%)I program at work in Go3,935 (63%)I program in Go outside of work3,381 (54%)I program at work in another language1,001 (16%)I manage a programming team506  (8%)I am a student113  (2%)Other27  (0%)No responseThe following apply to me: (multiple choice)2,386 (66%)I program in Go outside of work2,235 (62%)I 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+ + + +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

+ +20162017My team deploys Non-Go programs to: (multiple choice)1,714 (48%)Self/Company Owned Servers1,122 (31%)AWS EC2360 (10%)Digital Ocean343 (10%)AWS Container249  (7%)None233  (6%)AWS Lambda210  (6%)Microsoft Azure186  (5%)Google Compute Engine185  (5%)Heroku115  (3%)Google Container Engine (GKE)100  (3%)Linode94  (3%)Google App Engine297  (8%)Other660 (18%)No responseMy team deploys Non-Go programs to: (multiple choice)2,865 (46%)Self/Company Owned Servers2,076 (33%)AWS EC2806 (13%)AWS Container644 (10%)AWS Lambda528  (8%)Google Compute Engine527  (8%)Digital Ocean442  (7%)None402  (6%)Microsoft Azure340  (5%)Heroku327  (5%)Google Container Engine (GKE)188  (3%)Google App Engine159  (3%)Linode95  (2%)Google Cloud Functions85  (1%)Azure Container Service50  (1%)Azure Functions524  (8%)Other825 (13%)No response + +

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+ + + + + + + +To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: +(strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) + + + + + + + +5,555 (1, 2, 4, 7, 27, 34, 13%) +I have a good understanding of Go best practices (9.5:1) [11:1] + + + + + + + +5,549 (0.4, 0.9, 3, 4, 17, 42, 23%) +I am able to quickly find answers to my questions (21:1) [31:1] + + + + + + + +5,528 (0.4, 0.4, 1, 2, 6, 32, 47%) +Go's performance meets my needs (48:1) [80:1] + + + + + + + +4,614 (1, 2, 4, 12, 15, 26, 13%) +Go's support for language interoperability meets my needs (6.8:1) [8.8:1] + + + + + + + +5,478 (0.8, 2, 5, 6, 24, 36, 13%) +I am able to quickly find libraries that I need (8.9:1) [12:1] + + + + + + + +5,443 (0.9, 2, 5, 7, 23, 37, 12%) +The Go libraries I use have the stability and features I need (9.1:1) [12:1] + + + + + + + +5,521 (0.8, 2, 4, 5, 17, 37, 22%) +Go language, library, and tool documentation meet my needs (11:1) [16:1] + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: +(strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) + + + + + + + +5,446 (0.8, 2, 6, 6, 21, 37, 14%) +I am able to effectively diagnose bugs in my Go programs (8.7:1) [12:1] + + + + + + + +4,968 (0.7, 2, 6, 13, 22, 27, 9%) +I am able to effectively diagnose performance issues in Go programs (6.7:1) [8.7:1] + + + + + + + +5,319 (0.7, 2, 3, 6, 16, 35, 24%) +I am able to effectively use Go’s concurrency features (goroutines, channels, select) (14:1) [21:1] + + + + + + + +5,096 (2, 5, 8, 15, 24, 21, 7%) +I am able to effectively debug uses of Go’s concurrency features (goroutines, channels, select) (3.6:1) [3.9:1] + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +Which Go libraries do you need that aren’t available today? + +306 (4.9%) +gui + +221 (3.5%) +library + +185 (3.0%) +libraries + +90 (1.4%) +native + +83 (1.3%) +good + +60 (1.0%) +ui + +59 (0.9%) +machine learning + +54 (0.9%) +framework + +48 (0.8%) +gui library + +48 (0.8%) +orm + +48 (0.8%) +processing + +47 (0.8%) +desktop + +44 (0.7%) +web + +41 (0.7%) +cross-platform + +39 (0.6%) +client + +39 (0.6%) +platform + +37 (0.6%) +standard + +35 (0.6%) +audio + +34 (0.5%) +image + +34 (0.5%) +mobile + +33 (0.5%) +sql + +32 (0.5%) +soap + +31 (0.5%) +pdf + +30 (0.5%) +api + +30 (0.5%) +package + +4,578 (73.5%) +No response + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +Rank the following in terms of where you get Go answers from: + + + + + +4,337 (28, 20, 13, 6, 2%) +Stack Overflow + + + + + +3,791 (29, 17, 9, 4, 1%) +golang.org + + + + + +3,362 (13, 17, 14, 8, 2%) +Reading source code (e.g., standard library, open-source packages) + + + + + +2,428 (4, 11, 13, 8, 3%) +GitHub + + + + + +1,408 (5, 6, 6, 5, 2%) +Coworkers + + + + + +1,071 (2, 4, 5, 4, 2%) +golang-nuts mailing list (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-nuts) + + + + + +895 (1, 2, 4, 4, 3%) +Reddit (r/golang) + + + + + +569 (1, 2, 2, 2, 2%) +Gopher Slack (invite.slack.golangbridge.org) + + + + + +432 (0.9, 1, 2, 2, 2%) +Friends + + + + + +283 (0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1, 1%) +Twitter + + + + + +214 (0.2, 0.8, 0.8, 1, 0.6%) +Go Forum (forum.golangbridge.org) + + + + + +186 (0.5, 0.7, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5%) +IRC + + + + + +386 (2, 1, 1, 0.9, 0.7%) +Other + +844 (14%) +No response + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +Rank the following in terms of where you get Go news from: + + + + + +2,809 (16, 14, 9, 4, 2%) +blog.Golang.org + + + + + +1,838 (15, 7, 4, 3, 1%) +Twitter + + + + + +1,703 (12, 7, 4, 2, 1%) +Reddit (r/golang) + + + + + +1,617 (13, 7, 3, 2, 0.7%) +Golangweekly.com + + + + + +1,578 (9, 8, 5, 3, 1%) +Hacker News + + + + + +1,051 (2, 5, 5, 3, 2%) +Community Blogs + + + + + +859 (2, 4, 4, 2, 2%) +GitHub + + + + + +798 (4, 4, 3, 1, 0.6%) +Coworkers + + + + + +704 (1, 3, 3, 2, 1%) +Just For Func + + + + + +516 (2, 2, 2, 1, 0.7%) +golang-nuts mailing list (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-nuts) + + + + + +428 (1, 2, 2, 1, 0.6%) +Go Time podcast + + + + + +393 (2, 2, 1, 1, 0.4%) +Golangnews.com + + + + + +333 (1, 1, 1, 1, 0.7%) +Gopher Slack (invite.slack.golangbridge.org) + + + + + +287 (1, 1, 1, 0.7, 0.4%) +golang-announce (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-announce) + + + + + +120 (0.5, 0.5, 0.4, 0.2, 0.3%) +Facebook + + + + + +86 (0.1, 0.4, 0.4, 0.2, 0.2%) +Go Forum (forum.golangbridge.org) + + + + + +205 (1, 1, 0.7, 0.3, 0.1%) +Other + +1,040 (17%) +No response + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +I have attended: (multiple choice) + +2,497 (40%) +None + +1,618 (26%) +A Go meetup + +947 (15%) +A Go themed conference (GopherCon, GothamGo, etc) + +506  (8%) +A Go remote meetup / online event + +363  (6%) +Go training + +228  (4%) +A technical conference for it's Go content + +65  (1%) +A Women Who Go event + +64  (1%) +A GoBridge event + +58  (1%) +Other + +1,440 (23%) +No response + + +

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Plea... 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All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +// To use: Create an HTML file using the following format... +/* + + +

+ + +

+*/ +// Then run mkhtml.go and it will inline the SVG files. + +package main + +import ( + "bytes" + "flag" + "io/ioutil" + "log" + "strings" +) + +var strip = flag.Bool("strip", false, "strip included files") + +func main() { + flag.Parse() + for _, arg := range flag.Args() { + do(arg) + } +} + +func do(file string) { + data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file) + if err != nil { + log.Fatal(err) + } + var out []byte + skip := false + for _, line := range bytes.SplitAfter(data, []byte("\n")) { + if skip && bytes.HasPrefix(line, []byte(" + + + + + + +I contribute to open source projects written in Go: (single choice) + +382 (6.1%) +As part of my daily routine + +463 (7.4%) +Weekly + +603 (9.7%) +Monthly + +2,180 (35.0%) +Infrequently + +1,792 (28.8%) +Never + +806 (12.9%) +No response + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +I have or am interested in contributing in the following ways to the Go community and projects: (multiple choice) + +1,785 (29%) +Standard library + +1,331 (21%) +Tools (go guru, go vet, go doc, etc) + +1,129 (18%) +Documentation + +1,115 (18%) +Tutorials + +967 (16%) +Community support via Stack Overflow, Slack, mailing list, etc + +863 (14%) +Being a technical mentor + +829 (13%) +Community involvement (workgroups, meetup attendance) + +727 (12%) +Toolchain (compiler, linker, etc) + +514  (8%) +Go Project maintenance (issue triage) + +474  (8%) +Event planning (meetup, conference, etc) + +433  (7%) +Language translation + +337  (5%) +General UX & Design contributions + +309  (5%) +golang.org website (code, UX, IA, content, etc) + +148  (2%) +Other + +2,553 (41%) +No response + + +

+ +

+ + + + + + + +To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: +(strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) + + + + + + + +4,091 (1, 3, 4, 19, 12, 18, 8%) +I feel welcome to contribute to Go (compiler, standard library, documentation, website) (4.3:1) [5.0:1] + + + + + + + +4,083 (3, 8, 10, 17, 11, 11, 5%) +The process of contributing to the Go project is clear to me (1.3:1) [1.3:1] + + + + + + + +3,657 (2, 3, 5, 23, 10, 13, 4%) +The Go project leadership understands my needs (2.8:1) [2.8:1] + + + + + + + +3,860 (2, 5, 6, 20, 10, 14, 6%) +I feel comfortable approaching the Go project leadership with questions and feedback (2.4:1) [2.7:1] + + + + + + + +4,351 (1, 2, 2, 12, 10, 26, 18%) +I am confident in the leadership of Go (11:1) [13:1] + + +

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+ + + + + + + +To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: +(strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) + + + + + + + +5,938 (2, 0.8, 1, 2, 5, 21, 64%) +I would recommend using Go to others (26:1) [32:1] + + + + + + + +5,928 (2, 1, 2, 4, 8, 20, 58%) +I would prefer to use Go for my next new project (17:1) [23:1] + + + + + + + +4,548 (1, 0.8, 1, 7, 9, 23, 31%) +Go is working well for my team (21:1) [26:1] + + + + + + + +4,716 (5, 6, 4, 17, 14, 14, 17%) +Go is critical to my company’s success (3.1:1) [3.1:1] + + +

+ +

Reading the data: This question asked how strongly the respondent agreed or disagreed with the statement. +The responses for each statement are displayed as sections of a single bar, from “strongly disagree” in deep red on the left end +to “strongly agree” in deep blue on the right end. The bars use the same scale as the rest of the graphs, +so they can (and do, especially later in the survey) vary in overall length due to lack of responses. +

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+The ratio after the text compares the number of respondents who agreed (including “somewhat agree” and “strongly agree”) +to those who disagreed (including “somewhat disagree” and “strongly disagree”). +For example, the ratio of respondents agreeing that they would recommend Go to respondents disagreeing was 19 to 1. +The second ratio (within the brackets) is simply a weighted ratio with each somewhat = 1, agree/disagree = 2, and strongly = 4. +

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+ + + + + + + +What is the biggest challenge you personally face using Go today? + +582 (9.3%) +lack + +489 (7.9%) +generics + +402 (6.5%) +management + +277 (4.4%) +libraries + +266 (4.3%) +dependency management + +194 (3.1%) +lack of generics + +159 (2.6%) +package + +137 (2.2%) +gui + +137 (2.2%) +library + +132 (2.1%) +good + +132 (2.1%) +work + +122 (2.0%) +time + +115 (1.8%) +enough + +114 (1.8%) +error handling + +113 (1.8%) +type + +109 (1.8%) +learning + +106 (1.7%) +projects + +104 (1.7%) +hard + +97 (1.6%) +team + +91 (1.5%) +dependencies + +91 (1.5%) +java + +87 (1.4%) +c + +82 (1.3%) +debugging + +81 (1.3%) +no generics + +81 (1.3%) +vendoring + +79 (1.3%) +package management + +79 (1.3%) +programming + +77 (1.2%) +gopath + +76 (1.2%) +features + +76 (1.2%) +types + +75 (1.2%) +people + +74 (1.2%) +web + +73 (1.2%) +python + +73 (1.2%) +write + +68 (1.1%) +development + +67 (1.1%) +generic + +67 (1.1%) +writing + +66 (1.1%) +difficult + +64 (1.0%) +interface + +64 (1.0%) +tools + +63 (1.0%) +missing + +62 (1.0%) +performance + +60 (1.0%) +interfaces + +60 (1.0%) +standard + +58 (0.9%) +community + +58 (0.9%) +packages + +56 (0.9%) +build + +56 (0.9%) +well + +55 (0.9%) +best + +55 (0.9%) +cgo + +55 (0.9%) +debugger + +55 (0.9%) +ide + +55 (0.9%) +other languages + +55 (0.9%) +verbose + +54 (0.9%) +boilerplate + +54 (0.9%) +finding + +54 (0.9%) +learn + +53 (0.9%) +not enough + +2,956 (47.5%) +No response + + +

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Reading the data: This question asked for write-in responses. +The bars above show the fraction of surveys mentioning common words or phrases. Only words or phrases that +appeared in 20 or more surveys are listed, and meaningless common words or phrases like “the” or “to be” are omitted. +The displayed results do overlap: for example, the 402 responses that mentioned “management” do include the +266 listed separately that mentioned “dependency management” and the 79 listed separately that mentioned +“package management.” + +However, nearly or completely redundant shorter entries are omitted: there are not twenty or more surveys that listed +“dependency” without mentioning “dependency management,” so there is no separate entry for “dependency.”

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+ + + + + + + +If it were not for the following reasons I would use Go more: + + + +3,077 (31, 14, 4%) +I work on an existing project written in another language + + + +2,152 (14, 16, 5%) +My project / team / TL prefers another language + + + +1,218 (10, 5, 4%) +Go lacks critical features + + + +1,100 (6, 7, 4%) +Go lacks critical libraries + + + +1,056 (6, 6, 4%) +Go isn't appropriate for what I'm working on + + + +643 (4, 4, 3%) +Not enough education or support resources for Go + + + +311 (2, 2, 1%) +Go lacks critical performance + + + +790 (5, 4, 3%) +Other + +1,309 (21%) +No response + + +

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+ + + + + + + +Which of the following functionality have you implemented (multiple choice) + +3,262 (52%) +Writing logs/metrics + +3,123 (50%) +Reading/updating configuration + +2,771 (45%) +User login and authentication + +2,748 (44%) +Process to process communication + +2,504 (40%) +Service authentication/authorization + +2,056 (33%) +Health checking + +1,138 (18%) +Keys & secret maintenance + +831 (13%) +Distributed caching + +532  (9%) +Distributed tracing + +1,269 (20%) +No response + + +

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+ + + + + + + +Which of the following do you access from Go: (multiple choice) + +3,784 (61%) +Open Source Relational DB (MySQL/PostgreSQL/CockroachDB) + +2,400 (39%) +Memory Cache (Redis/memcache) + +2,005 (32%) +Cloud Storage (S3/Google Cloud Storage/Azure Storage/Minio) + +1,891 (30%) +Open Source NoSQL DB (MongoDB/Cassandra) + +1,606 (26%) +Authentication and federation (SSO/LDAP/OAuth) + +1,546 (25%) +Distributed Key-Value store (etcd/consul) + +657 (11%) +Proprietary Relational DB (Oracle/DB2/MSSQL/Sybase) + +459  (7%) +Distributed Lock Service (zookeeper) + +1,367 (22%) +No response + + +

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+ +20162017If it were not for the following reasons I would use Go more:3,077 (31,14,4%)I work on an existing project written in another lang2,152 (14,16,5%)My project / team / TL prefers another language1,218 (10,5,4%)Go lacks critical features1,100 (6,7,4%)Go lacks critical libraries1,056 (6,6,4%)Go isn't appropriate for what I'm working on643 (4,4,3%)Not enough education or support resources for Go311 (2,2,1%)Go lacks critical performance790 (5,4,3%)Other1,309 (21%)No responseIf it were not for the following reasons I would use Go more:1,485 (24,14,4%)I work on an existing project written in another lang1,160 (16,12,4%)My project / team / TL prefers another language841 (11,8,5%)Go isn’t an appropriate fit for what I’m working on596 (6,6,4%)Go lacks critical libraries412 (6,3,2%)Go lacks critical features319 (3,3,3%)Not enough education or support resources for Go121 (1,1,0.8%)Go lacks critical performance374 (4,3,3%)Other1,042 (29%)No response + +

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