Go (programming language)

Quality:

Go - programming language developed by Google and the open-source community. This programming language is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 15^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Go (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 85.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 192 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 15^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 17^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Go (programming language)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Go (programming language)”, its content was written by 707 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1994 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Go is on the 15^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1644 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9832 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #174 in November 2009
• Global: #281 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2733 in August 2022
• Global: #4156 in August 2022

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		85.2473
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Go (pian-têng gú-giân)		71.1909
3	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		68.7498
4	Uzbek (uz) Go (dasturlash tili)		65.6421
5	Chinese (zh) Go語言		58.6429
6	Russian (ru) Go		52.1946
7	Estonian (et) Go (programmeerimiskeel)		50.6655
8	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		48.828
9	Persian (fa) گو (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		46.6339
10	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		46.3717

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		13 328 667
2	Russian (ru) Go		2 661 061
3	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		1 001 254
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		990 653
5	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		946 243
6	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		885 874
7	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		404 378
8	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		253 015
9	Italian (it) Go (linguaggio di programmazione)		226 892
10	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		214 626

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		34 814
2	Russian (ru) Go		2 885
3	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		2 490
4	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		2 295
5	French (fr) Go (langage)		1 935
6	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		1 384
7	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		854
8	Chinese (zh) Go語言		776
9	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		667
10	Italian (it) Go (linguaggio di programmazione)		508

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		707
2	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		150
3	Russian (ru) Go		131
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		123
5	Chinese (zh) Go語言		102
6	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		74
7	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		68
8	Italian (it) Go (linguaggio di programmazione)		50
9	Hebrew (he) Go (שפת תכנות)		44
10	Ukrainian (uk) Go (мова програмування)		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		3
2	Arabic (ar) غو (لغة برمجة)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Go (llenguatge de programació)		1
4	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		1
5	Basque (eu) Go (programazio lengoaia)		1
6	Finnish (fi) Go (ohjelmointikieli)		1
7	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		1
8	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Go (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0
10	Belarusian (be) Go (мова праграмавання)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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