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Comment by cmrdporcupine

Let me just say that I've been at Google for almost 9 years, and have recently started looking for work elsewhere and it seems that Go is far more popular outside of Google than inside it. Which disappoints me because my experiences with the language internally have biased me such that I have no desire to go use it elsewhere.

I've said this before, but I think it's a bit dishonest to sell this as a "Google language." It is an accepted language here, along with Python, Java, JS/TS, Dart, and C++. But it is by no means dominant.

To put it another way, it seems if the goal is to avoid working in Go I am better off staying @ Google than leaving. And that's weird, and maybe revealing.

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