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But you are lucky if your project has a large group of programmers. There is more probably a large group of projects with a small group of programmers. There are also some large projects: Linux, KDE, LibreOffice, VLC, LLVM, etc... and none is written in Go.

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>Linux (1991)

>KDE (1996)

>LibreOffice (based on StarOffice, 6.0 released in 2002)

>VLC (2001)

>LLVM (2003)

I think you have a point r.e there being more smaller projects than large projects with large teams. But this is a terrible argument. Go was released in 2007. Are you being facetious or are you suggesting that porting a mature codebase to Go is that easy? CoreOS was released in 2013 and so was Docker. I know that Docker actually ported to Go after the fact, but it was still relatively young and Go was already mature by then.

Go was released in late 2009.

This is a weird argument to make, since Go was first introduced in 2009 and the first stable version was released in 2012. All those projects precede Go by a decade or more.

Also, despite Go's short existence, there are already a surprising number of large Go project (Docker, Syncthing, etcd).

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