Perhaps, because China doesn't have "enterprise" sweatshop industry and "Java mass hysteria" and Golang is, well, actually good enough?
Why is Golang popular in China?
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Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#72Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#73Come from china, a golang user, for 2 years now. golang.org and Google is blocked in china by government, so, Google trends and golang.org traffic from China maybe miss leading. Go is quite popular in china, the reasons can be: 1. A few companies is based on Golang, like qiniu.com. 2. More and more companies are adopting Golang, since it's very powerful for writing network servers. These companies are facing very fas…
Ah, interesting! The rapid increase in traffic for Chinese sites easily makes a lot of sense, when thinking about it!
With 1 billion users in a single language/culture, I guess successful sites might indeed grow quite fast, right?
... and there, a compiled fast language is paramount, no? :)
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#74文章还是没有解释为什么，只说了是什么。
Why are you speaking Chinese on an English newsboard?
It's not very polite to respond in a different language as the question, especially when it cannot be presumed everyone will understand you.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#75文章还是没有解释为什么，只说了是什么。
Why are you speaking Chinese on an English newsboard? It's not very polite to respond in a different language as the question, especially when it cannot be presumed everyone will understand you.
I think in times of google translate that's not true anymore. Anyway it might be the only way for him to respond. If you feel uncomfortable communicating in Chinese I can completely understand that (I spend a year in China without many previous Chinese skills) but it's not a huge problem if it just happens here and there. Let him communicate to us this way. There are people here who can speak Chinese to him back. And he seems to be able to read English, so you don't have to use Chinese. :)
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Go" is actually the Japanese name for the game. In Chinese, it's called "weiqi".
Oh right... Well you just killed my theory.
If you just search for "go" it might still be true what you say. At least Google is able to understand synonyms. So searching "go" and something in Chinese might yield results with "weiqi" in it.
What really kills your theory is that "golang" is certainly not easy to confuse with the board game.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#77Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#78people in china cannot visit google related site, include golang.org.LOL
And still they form one of the biggest user groups. Quite interesting, right? If you have some Chinese programming friends it's probably not hard to get an interpreter binary and the documentation in Chinese for your system of choice. It's a good example that the public image and what actually happens is not even expected to be the same in China.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#79> 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…
If you graduate from university and work in a real company you will see that APIs, especially if given to customers, are nearly impossible to kill. You can change them a little, but you can't get rid of them, ever. I bet there is even still a significant Android 2.3 community in China as well (as I guess in most other second/third world countries). If you don't replace Android, you won't replace the Java. And even then Android will be hard thread to your new project.
Re: Why is Golang popular in China?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you speaking Chinese on an English newsboard? It's not very polite to respond in a different language as the question, especially when it cannot be presumed everyone will understand you.
I think in times of google translate that's not true anymore. Anyway it might be the only way for him to respond. If you feel uncomfortable communicating in Chinese I can completely understand that (I spend a year in China without many previous Chinese skills) but it's not a huge problem if it just happens here and there. Let him communicate to us this way. There are people here who can speak Chinese to him back. And…
Et donc moi aussie je peux utiliser n'importe quelle langue? /s
Si on vas tous utiliser Google Translate, on va commencer à parler comme des logiciels. Moi en faite je préfère parler avec des humains. On fait tous l'effort.