The document summarizes the growth of the Go programming language over the past 6 years since its announcement in November 2009. Go 1.0 was officially released in March 2012. The first GoSF Meetup group was formed in April 2012. Six years after its initial announcement and 4 years after the 1.0 release, Go 1.6 was recently released and the language continues to grow in popularity with meetup groups forming for developers to discuss and learn Go.