To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: (strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neutral, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) 3,094 (1, 2, 5, 6, 27, 32, 12%) I have a good understanding of Go best practices. (9.6:1) 3,083 (0, 1, 3, 4, 17, 41, 20%) I am able to quickly find answers to my questions. (20:1) 3,053 (0, 0, 1, 2, 7, 32, 42%) Go's performance meets my needs. (57:1) 2,523 (1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 26, 8%) Go's support for language interoperability meets my needs. (6.0:1) 3,049 (1, 2, 6, 7, 24, 34, 11%) I am able to quickly find libraries that I need. (7.5:1) 3,083 (1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 37, 20%) Go language, library, and tool documentation meet my needs. (11:1)
What Go libraries do you need that aren't available today? 208 (5.8%) gui 144 (4.0%) library 121 (3.4%) libraries 63 (1.8%) native 60 (1.7%) ui 53 (1.5%) good 33 (0.9%) orm 33 (0.9%) standard 33 (0.9%) web 32 (0.9%) framework 32 (0.9%) gui library 31 (0.9%) mobile 28 (0.8%) android 28 (0.8%) database 28 (0.8%) desktop 28 (0.8%) libs 28 (0.8%) sql 26 (0.7%) cross platform 25 (0.7%) processing 25 (0.7%) xml 24 (0.7%) api 24 (0.7%) machine learning 24 (0.7%) official 24 (0.7%) windows 23 (0.6%) soap 22 (0.6%) toolkit 21 (0.6%) pdf 21 (0.6%) python 20 (0.6%) bindings 20 (0.6%) graphics 20 (0.6%) package 2,498 (69.5%) No response
What changes would most improve the Go documentation? 512 (14%) examples 300 (8%) more examples 134 (4%) documentation 69 (2%) example 62 (2%) docs 49 (1%) godoc 34 (1%) usage 32 (1%) functions 32 (1%) package 31 (1%) good 29 (1%) function 29 (1%) great 29 (1%) packages 29 (1%) search 28 (1%) cases 26 (1%) best practices 26 (1%) libraries 23 (1%) doc 23 (1%) more example 22 (1%) code examples 21 (1%) syntax 20 (1%) interface 2,532 (70%) No response
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: (strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neutral, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) 3,002 (1, 2, 6, 7, 23, 34, 11%) I am able to effectively diagnose bugs in my Go programs. (7.2:1) 2,725 (1, 2, 6, 13, 22, 24, 7%) I am able to effectively diagnose performance issues in my Go programs. (5.8:1) 2,932 (1, 2, 3, 5, 17, 33, 22%) I am able to effectively use Go's concurrency features (goroutines, channels, select). (14:1) 2,801 (2, 5, 11, 14, 23, 18, 5%) I am able to effectively debug uses of Go's concurrency features (goroutines, channels, select). (2.7:1)
Rank the following in terms of where you get Go answers from: (ordered choice, up to 5) 2,226 (23, 18, 12, 7, 3%) Stack Overflow 2,101 (30, 15, 8, 4, 1%) golang.org 1,814 (13, 17, 12, 7, 2%) Reading source code (e.g., standard library, open-source packages) 1,200 (3, 8, 12, 7, 4%) GitHub 854 (3, 7, 7, 5, 3%) golang-nuts mailing list (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-nuts) 682 (2, 3, 5, 5, 3%) Reddit (r/golang) 630 (3, 4, 5, 3, 2%) Coworkers 334 (2, 2, 2, 2, 2%) Gopher Slack (invite.slack.golangbridge.org) 214 (1, 1, 2, 1, 1%) Friends 161 (0, 0, 1, 1, 1%) Twitter 156 (1, 1, 1, 1, 0%) IRC 126 (0, 1, 1, 1, 1%) Go Forum (forum.golangbridge.org) 262 (2, 2, 1, 1, 1%) Other 643 (18%) No response
Rank the following in terms of where you get Go news from: (ordered choice, up to 5) 1,659 (17, 14, 9, 4, 2%) blog.Golang.org 1,153 (17, 8, 4, 2, 1%) Reddit (r/golang) 1,053 (14, 8, 4, 3, 1%) Twitter 903 (6, 8, 6, 3, 1%) Hacker News 777 (9, 6, 4, 2, 0%) Golangweekly.com 633 (2, 6, 5, 4, 1%) Community Blogs 430 (2, 3, 4, 2, 1%) GitHub 418 (3, 3, 3, 2, 1%) golang-nuts mailing list (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-nuts) 394 (3, 3, 3, 1, 1%) Coworkers 212 (1, 1, 2, 1, 1%) Gopher Slack (invite.slack.golangbridge.org) 203 (1, 2, 1, 1, 1%) Golangnews.com 199 (1, 2, 1, 1, 1%) golang-announce (groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-announce) 176 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1%) Go Time podcast 65 (0, 0, 0, 1, 0%) Go Forum (forum.golangbridge.org) 42 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0%) Facebook 160 (1, 1, 1, 0, 0%) Other 747 (21%) No response
I have attended: (multiple choice) 1,315 (37%) None 879 (24%) A Go meetup 523 (15%) A Go themed conference (GopherCon, GothamGo, etc) 276 (8%) A Go remote meetup / online event 186 (5%) Go training 165 (5%) A technical conference for it's Go content 43 (1%) A GoBridge event 37 (1%) A Women Who Go event 65 (2%) Other 993 (28%) No response