While the Google-developed Go (golang) language has branched out into industries such as finance and media, much of its usage remains concentrated in the technology industry itself, according to the Go Developer 2019 Survey.

A report featuring results of the survey was published on April 20. Forty-three percent of respondents reported working in the technology sector while 12 percent were in financial services, 9 percent in media/gaming, and 7 percent in retail/consumer packaged goods.

A large majority of respondents said Go was working well for their teams (86 percent) and that they would prefer to use Go for their next project (89 percent). Fifty-nine percent described Go as critical to the success of their companies.

Other findings in the survey include:

All told, The Go Developer Survey 2019 Survey fielded 10,975 respondents, although not all completed the entire survey. The number of respondents was nearly twice as large as the previous year.

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