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Why is Golang popular in China?

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Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by desdiv »

Mr_P wrote: post #4

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?

Almost every non-trivial programming language released after 2000 supports unicode identifiers[0]. Rust, Python, Ruby, C#, Scala, Clojure, just to name a few, all support unicode identifiers.

[0] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names

Re: Why is Golang popular in China?

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Post by desdiv »

higherpurpose wrote: post #3

> 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 th…

>Go 1.4 is released [0]

>10 December 2014

>Today we announce Go 1.4, the fifth major stable release of Go...

>The most notable new feature in this release is official support for Android. Using the support in the core and the libraries in the golang.org/x/mobile repository, it is now possible to write simple Android apps using only Go code. At this stage, the support libraries are _still nascent_ and _under heavy development_. Early adopters should expect a bumpy ride, but we welcome the community to get involved.

Emphasis mine.

I really don't think a beta feature that was released a month ago could have affected the statistics.

[0] https://blog.golang.org/go1.4

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