I live in china, and haven't heard anything about go being particularly popular. It hasn't shown up on any intern resumes for systems research positions yet.
Why is Golang popular in China?
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Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#22> 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 dev…
Well, they do make the hardware over there -- maybe they're pretty comfortable with beta software.
And besides, there was already some Android integration even before Google announced it.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#23Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#24It could be that 'golang' is not popular enough for statistical comparisons to be insightful. For a chuckle, look up 'golang' on Google Trends and then add the second term 'perl'.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#25Could it be because golang supports unicode identifiers? For non-native English speakers, it must be more difficult to program in ASCII-based languages, right?
Well...I do want to let you know that in most Chinese colleges, computer science starts from learning C.
While using in Chinese in comments might be very common, I rarely seem people using non-English identifier in actual code. If such behavior being caught on sight, I am pretty sure it will be flawed upon and be treated as evidence of being unprofessional.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#26It could be that 'golang' is not popular enough for statistical comparisons to be insightful. For a chuckle, look up 'golang' on Google Trends and then add the second term 'perl'.
Sure, and you can draw the conclusion that Perl is declining and Go is rising.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr%2C%20%...
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#27I live in China, I think Go is becoming popular in China. Many Coders are talking about it and compare Go with Erlang or C++. In fact there are lots of debates in Chinese community about Go and Erlang such as this link http://www.zhihu.com/question/27465406. Also many programmers are talking about Go and Erlang in weibo -- a chinese website that is similar to twitter. Finally, because of the Great Fire Wall has blocked Google in China, we can't direct visit websites related to Google include http://golang.org. So many programmers are tend to visit the chinese version Go communities.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#28I live in China, I think Go is becoming popular in China. Many Coders are talking about it and compare Go with Erlang or C++. In fact there are lots of debates in Chinese community about Go and Erlang such as this link http://www.zhihu.com/question/27465406. Also many programmers are talking about Go and Erlang in weibo -- a chinese website that is similar to twitter. Finally, because of the Great Fire Wall has blocked Google in China, we can't direct visit websites related to Google include http://golang.org. So many programmers are tend to visit the chinese version Go communities.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#29for a niche language like go or nodejs, such difference in popularity is just a random results blessed by the rungessus... nothing too interesting anyway.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Translated: "The article doesn't explain why, only that it is." So laowushi, why do you think it is?
可能是因为：一是Google在中国开发者心中的地位。二是Golang的语法与C有一定渊源，并且简单、面向对象。中国计算机专业学生的入门语言一般是C。三是Golang的库专业、强大。
Translation: This is probably because 1) Google has a special place in the hearts of Chinese developers. 2) Golang came from the same roots as C，is simple， has OOP features etc. Most Chinese computer science students' first language is C. 3) Golang has a large and specialized library.