Question

Where is go language in list of programming languages?

Answer 1

Go quite popular as programming languages go. However, it's usually quite hard to tell how popular programming languages are, but one way are developer surveys. In the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer survey, Go ranks 13th which is pretty good for a programming language.

If you are looking for a language to start learning, it's a good idea to see how much a programming language is used in business and how much it is growing. JavaScript, for example, has grown immensely over the past couple of years and C# is used a lot in the business sector.

1. JavaScript 67.8%
2. HTML/CSS 63.5%
3. SQL 54.4%
4. Python 41.7%
5. Java 41.1%
6. Bash/Shell/PowerShell 36.6%
7. C# 31.0%
8. PHP 26.4%
9. C++ 23.5%
10. TypeScript 21.2%
11. C 20.6%
12. Ruby 8.4%
13. Go 8.2%

Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-popular-technologies