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Golang overtakes Clojure in Goggle Trends

10 points by mheiler 13y ago

KingMob 13y ago
That's... a very specific comparison. Why is Clojure singled out here? They don't really inhabit the same problem space.
mjewkes 13y ago
Check out the countries of origin. Clojure is huge in Scandinavia, golang searches overwhelmingly coming from China.
killertypo 13y ago
confused, but according to the chart it was only for a bit and then dipped back down. Though I am definitely interested in golang and would love to find a good reason to write some production code for work in it.
cr4zy 13y ago
Here's an interesting trio:golang, rust, and julia all about equal right now: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2... Also interesting that clojure is much bigger in the google trends "Programming" category. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust%2C%20clojure&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...
- wwkeyboard 13y ago
  Just for perspective, here is the same graph adding Python and Java: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust%2C%20Python%2C%20Java&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2... At the level of 'google trends' (or really, any language ball-parking) we should be talking about orders of magnitude instead of small differences.
codepope2014 13y ago
The Goggle trends, they do nothing!
- Fasebook 13y ago
  In other news, YahooLang trends upward on YahooTrends.
yresnob 13y ago
I'm stopping my focus on clojure right away because go is trending!!!... lol I've yet to see anything from go that makes it worth the investment for me in 2014..clojure solves all my needs and then some.. and there are oh so many needs..
mapt 13y ago
Due to the fuzzy way language is used, one cannot simply compare 'go', 'clojure', or 'scala' search quantities directly. Not everybody refers to 'Go' as 'golang', 'scala' is a common noun in some languages, etc. At best, you can reframe your query to remove unrelated topics completely, with searches like "golang" and "scala language", which will be proportional to the search popularity of the topics but only a fraction of actual searches (a different fraction for each searchterm, but stable over time), and compare their relative rates of growth rather than their absolute levels.

10 points by mheiler 13y ago

That's... a very specific comparison. Why is Clojure singled out here? They don't really inhabit the same problem space.

mjewkes 13y ago

Check out the countries of origin. Clojure is huge in Scandinavia, golang searches overwhelmingly coming from China.

killertypo 13y ago

confused, but according to the chart it was only for a bit and then dipped back down. Though I am definitely interested in golang and would love to find a good reason to write some production code for work in it.

cr4zy 13y ago

Here's an interesting trio:golang, rust, and julia all about equal right now: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2... Also interesting that clojure is much bigger in the google trends "Programming" category. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust%2C%20clojure&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...

wwkeyboard 13y ago
Just for perspective, here is the same graph adding Python and Java: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%20golang%2C%20rust%2C%20Python%2C%20Java&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2... At the level of 'google trends' (or really, any language ball-parking) we should be talking about orders of magnitude instead of small differences.

codepope2014 13y ago

The Goggle trends, they do nothing!

Fasebook 13y ago
In other news, YahooLang trends upward on YahooTrends.

yresnob 13y ago

I'm stopping my focus on clojure right away because go is trending!!!... lol I've yet to see anything from go that makes it worth the investment for me in 2014..clojure solves all my needs and then some.. and there are oh so many needs..

mapt 13y ago

Due to the fuzzy way language is used, one cannot simply compare 'go', 'clojure', or 'scala' search quantities directly. Not everybody refers to 'Go' as 'golang', 'scala' is a common noun in some languages, etc. At best, you can reframe your query to remove unrelated topics completely, with searches like "golang" and "scala language", which will be proportional to the search popularity of the topics but only a fraction of actual searches (a different fraction for each searchterm, but stable over time), and compare their relative rates of growth rather than their absolute levels.