Google’s Go programming language gaining massive popularity

Google’s Go programming language has shown a big increase in popularity over the past year, according to the October 2016 Tiobe Index.

Go was ranked as the 65th most-popular programming language in the Index in October 2015, and has risen to 16th place in the past 12 months.

Tiobe said Go and Groovy are two languages which are strong contenders for the Index’s programming language of the year award.

“Google’s Go language seems to be unrivalled, probably boosted by the immense popularity of Docker, the container application that is written in Go,” said Tiobe.

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