The document outlines the growth and achievements of the Go programming language, noting its rise in popularity, community engagement, and global adoption across various industries. It highlights ongoing challenges, particularly in dependency management and project contribution accessibility, as it prepares for the anticipated Go 2. The emphasis is on fostering a more inclusive community and improving user experience to enhance Go's appeal and utility.

1. G O P H E R
N A T I O N
S T A T E O F T H E
A U G 2 0 1 7

2. WHERE WE’VE BEEN

3. MAJOR GO
MILESTONES

4. GO’S
TIMELINE
2007 2009 2012
Open SourceBirth 1.0

5. launch
2014 2016 20172015 2015
WWG & GOB SSAGopherCon Go In Go Go 2 annc.

6. ACCOMPLISHMENTS

7. GO’S GARBAGE
COLLECTION :
A STORY IN TWEETS

12. Go #5 most loved,
#3 most wanted
on Stack Overflow
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology

14. • Reliability
• Scalability
• Durability
• Simplicity
• Performance
Go is go to
language for:

15. CHALLENGES

16. Go’s Dependency
Management story
isn’t good (yet). We
realized our
deficiencies in this
space later than we
should have.
Dependency
Management

17. New User
Experience
Image via https://twitter.com/golangar/status/796000999844577284

18. Community
Culture

19. Single
Perspective

20. It’s too hard and too
intimidating for many
in the community to
contribute to the Go
project.
Project
Participation

21. T O D A Y

22. WORLDWIDE
ADOPTION

23. hello.

24. Go breaks into
the Tiobe Top 10

25. Go #9 on GitHub
usage & 2nd
fastest
growing
https://octoverse.github.com/

26. Go #9 on IEEE
rankings
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2017

27. Go #14 on Stack
Overflow Survey
(usage)
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology

28. 500k – 1M
Go Users

29. WORLDWIDE
COMMUNITY

30. 100’s of Go
meetups all
around the
world

31. 20+
Women Who
Go
chapters
around the
world

32. Conferences
Across the World

33. GO ADOPTION – BANKING / COMMERCE

34. GO ADOPTION – GAMING / MEDIA

35. GO ADOPTION – TECH

36. GO ADOPTION – GENERAL

37. GO ADOPTION – GLOBAL COMPANIES

38. ADDRESSING
OUR
CHALLENGES

39. Go’s Dependency
Management story
isn’t good (yet). We
realized our
deficiencies in this
space later than we
should have.
Dependency
Management

40. Managing
Dependencies
3
1
2

41. New User
Experience
Image via https://twitter.com/golangar/status/796000999844577284

42. Improving New
User Experience
3
1
2

43. Community
Culture

44. Improving
Culture
3
1
2
https://twitter.com/jboursiquot/status/885933489513738245https://twitter.com/kirtenz/status/885499675079462912

45. Single
Perspective

46. Increasing User
Feedback
3
1
2

47. It’s too hard and too
intimidating for many
in the community to
contribute to the Go
project.
Project
Participation

48. Expanding
Go Team &
Contributors
3
1
2
https://twitter.com/joshroppo/status/886358586468687872

49. MAKING
AN
IMPACT

50. In roughly a week’s time,
I went from initial
commit to shipping
replacement backends.
“
- Matt Robenolt @

51. You can write in Go as
easily as Python, but it
can save you a lot of
machine resources.
“
- Alexander Ponomarev @
(translated from Russian)

52. Dropbox & Go

53. WHERE WE’RE GOING

54. GO
– THE
LANGUAGE
OF THE CLOUD

55. THE CLOUD IS BUILT IN GO

56. We’ve had great
experiences with
tools written in Go
and now we are
adopting it for our
next project
“
- Cloud Users in 2018

57. GO 2

58. First and foremost, Go
2’s main goal will be to
fix the most significant
ways Go 1.x fails at scale.
“
- Russ Cox

59. Maybe we can do
two or three
[changes], certainly
not more than five.
“
- Russ Cox

60. Experience
Reports
We need your help!
We need people to write
experience reports to
clearly define and
communicate real issues
they are experiencing
using Go.

61. NEW
CHALLENGES
OPPORTUNITIES

62. Go’s
Messaging
Problem
Go’s value isn’t in one key
feature. People that use Go
love it but struggle to
communicate why to others
“Try it and you’ll love it” has
limited success in
communicating the value Go
brings to organizations

63. Go’s
Accessibility
Issue
Go’s docs have an implicit
audience of systems
programmers having a formal
CS education.
The work to define personas is
the first of many steps to
meeting Go’s audience where
they are.

64. The Go project will never reach its potential
without contributions from people like you
The Go project will never reach its potential
without contributions from people like you
WE NEED
YOUR HELP
WE NEED
YOUR HELP