Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by signa11 » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 3:45 AM UTC

Why is Golang popular in China?
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Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by k42030144 » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:24 AM UTC

Because they do not understand erlang

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by higherpurpose » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:25 AM UTC

> Dave Cheney pointed out on Reddit that he is under the impression that Go is popular in China for its usefulness in writing programs for rooted Android phones.

Interesting. It seems Go really is preferred to Java, if given the choice. I hope Google seriously considers making Go the main programming language for Android in the next few years. Other than having to rewrite all the old and new APIs (in parallel with the new releases) I assume it shouldn't cause too many backwards compatibility issues now that they made apps compile to the platform natively anyway, which I think should allow to rip out Java, once 95+ percent of the Android users are on Android 5 or later.

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by Mr_P » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:44 AM UTC

Could it be because golang supports unicode identifiers? For non-native English speakers, it must be more difficult to program in ASCII-based languages, right?

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by baby » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:48 AM UTC

I have a theory that it might be because of the Chinese game "go" that it started to become popular in China.

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by justinsb » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:50 AM UTC

Previous discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23c7y0/why_is_golang...

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by w1ntermute » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:50 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #5

I have a theory that it might be because of the Chinese game "go" that it started to become popular in China.

"Go" is actually the Japanese name for the game. In Chinese, it's called "weiqi".

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by etnl » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:51 AM UTC

people in china cannot visit google related site, include golang.org.LOL

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:52 AM UTC

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Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by baby » Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 4:52 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #7

baby wrote: post #5

I have a theory that it might be because of the Chinese game "go" that it started to become popular in China.

"Go" is actually the Japanese name for the game. In Chinese, it's called "weiqi".

Oh right... Well you just killed my theory.