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When I look at the Google Trends for "golang", China is the top region by a huge margin (the next highest region after China is Sweden at 30) [ http://i.imgur.c

by codeka 13y ago

When I look at the Google Trends for "golang", China is the top region by a huge margin (the next highest region after China is Sweden at 30) [ http://i.imgur.com/XHW40kp.png http://i.imgur.com/XHW40kp.png ]. And the rise of interest in "golang" in general seems to correspond to the massive spike in China [ http://i.imgur.com/Y3oO2jf.png http://i.imgur.com/Y3oO2jf.png ]. I'm not really sure what that means...

columbo 13y ago
Could just be false signals for people googling "Go" the game and not the language. Golang is the first search on a generic search for "Go" (https://www.google.com.hk/webhp?hl=zh-CN&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=zh-CN&q=go&safe=strict https://www.google.com.hk/webhp?hl=zh-CN&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=zh-C...).
- prewett 13y ago
  People in China that are searching for the game would probably be searching for "weiqi" or "围棋". "Go" comes from the Japanese word for the game, "igo". Also, in my experience, very few (mainland) Chinese play weiqi. Everyone plays Chinese chess, but very few play Go. So people searching for "go" are quite likely searching for the language. (Although I'd expect that the people who know about the language know enough to search for "golang", so who knows)
rmcpherson 13y ago
Go is quite popular in China, especially on Windows. I'm not sure of the reasons for that, but Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand do mention it in this interview on the ChangeLog: http://thechangelog.com/100/ http://thechangelog.com/100/
- mimighost 13y ago
  A lot of webgame companies use Go, because of its performance in concurrency.
mseepgood 13y ago
China is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. That's 19% of the world population.
- oblio 13y ago
  The population itself doesn't matter that much. According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China#Poverty_reduction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China#Poverty_reduct... ~950 million live on less than 5$ per day. I doubt you can get a decent PC and a decent Internet connection on that kind of money. I'd bet that the US has more programmers than China right now, even though China has 4x the population.
p0nce 13y ago
Perhaps people mispelling "Gobang" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku

by codeka 13y ago

columbo 13y ago

Could just be false signals for people googling "Go" the game and not the language. Golang is the first search on a generic search for "Go" (https://www.google.com.hk/webhp?hl=zh-CN&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=zh-CN&q=go&safe=strict https://www.google.com.hk/webhp?hl=zh-CN&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=zh-C...).

prewett 13y ago
People in China that are searching for the game would probably be searching for "weiqi" or "围棋". "Go" comes from the Japanese word for the game, "igo". Also, in my experience, very few (mainland) Chinese play weiqi. Everyone plays Chinese chess, but very few play Go. So people searching for "go" are quite likely searching for the language. (Although I'd expect that the people who know about the language know enough to search for "golang", so who knows)

rmcpherson 13y ago

Go is quite popular in China, especially on Windows. I'm not sure of the reasons for that, but Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand do mention it in this interview on the ChangeLog: http://thechangelog.com/100/ http://thechangelog.com/100/

mimighost 13y ago
A lot of webgame companies use Go, because of its performance in concurrency.

mseepgood 13y ago

China is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. That's 19% of the world population.

oblio 13y ago
The population itself doesn't matter that much. According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China#Poverty_reduction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China#Poverty_reduct... ~950 million live on less than 5$ per day. I doubt you can get a decent PC and a decent Internet connection on that kind of money. I'd bet that the US has more programmers than China right now, even though China has 4x the population.

p0nce 13y ago

Perhaps people mispelling "Gobang" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku