{"id":4703,"date":"2017-11-14T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2017-11-14T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:03:18","slug":"its-not-data-science-but-this-one-surprised-me-a-bit-on-golang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/its-not-data-science-but-this-one-surprised-me-a-bit-on-golang\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not data science but this one surprised me a bit: on Golang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jgovernor-media.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/files\/2017\/11\/golang-ruby-node.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4704\" src=\"http:\/\/jgovernor-media.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/files\/2017\/11\/golang-ruby-node.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While quick and dirty Google Trends is definitely not data science it can be useful for a sniff test. I was working on a client project today, when I thought I would look at search interest over time. Rails- we&#8217;d expect to be tailing off a bit. Node.js &#8211; I actually expected to see more of an upward slope, after a it had felt like it was plateauing for a while. Node is definitely still growing strongly in adoption. But Golang &#8211; I was certainly not expecting this kind of sustained upward slope in interest, in terms of\u00a0<em>volume<\/em>. Language interest can grow quickly, but tends to plateau pretty quickly too, as populations become saturated. Golang is showing sustained growth in interest over time though.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Collison was right in 2012<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/golang?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#golang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Derek Collison (@derekcollison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekcollison\/status\/245522124666716160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But judging from the graph Go could end up doing something rather more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While quick and dirty Google Trends is definitely not data science it can be useful for a sniff test. I was working on a client project today, when I thought I would look at search interest over time. Rails- we&#8217;d expect to be tailing off a bit. Node.js &#8211; I actually expected to see more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1dR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}