Is Golang gaining popularity?

It’s pretty thrilling to take a look at the Trends chart (link below) for Go (or any similar tooling for that matter). Beyond the fact that it should provide the answer you’re looking for (i.e. at time of writing no — the overall popularity of Go is apparently in decline), it also breaks down the interest by region and you can see a significant user base in China.:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=golang

It’s especially fascinating when you introduce a 2nd language/framework, against which to compare: e.g. Javascript

Clearly there are limitations in taking this approach as your only guide in attempting to answer the question (especially because we’re limited to searching “golang” rather than “go” due to the latter’s potential confusion with the various meanings of the english word “go” in all its different forms) but it offers a start. You could of course argue that the same progblem exists for Python, C, Julia, etc.

There is further value in pairing with the trends analysis tool provided by Stack Overflow (a sort of “Quora for coding”): insights.stackoverflow.com

From the template search in the link, we immediately see Go is not included in SO’s list of recognised “most popular” languages; you can easily add it as a search tag and confirm that the interest in Go manifests as a negligible flat line in comparison to more established, versatile toolings such as Python.

Hopefully this piques your interest in Go and other languages, leading to your learning something new; perhaps influencing that popularity yourself!