🔗 The Go ecosystem in 2025: key trends in frameworks, tools, and developer practices

Go turns 16 this year. To celebrate this milestone, we have taken a closer look at the latest Developer Ecosystem Survey results and examined the evolution of the Go ecosystem over the past five years.

According to JetBrains Data Playground, 2.2 million professional developers use Go as their primary programming language – twice as many as five years ago. If we add pros for whom Go is a secondary language, the number exceeds 5 million.

Go continues to be a top choice for adoption, as per theState of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025, 11% of all software developers are planning to adopt Go in the next 12 months. Like last year, it is fourth in the JetBrains Language Promise Index, trailing only Typescript, Rust, and Python.

Go developers usually fall into one of two categories, with some blending both types of roles:

• Web backend developers who work on web applications involving microservices.
• DevOps or Site Reliability Engineers who manage IT infrastructure platforms (Kubernetes or serverless architectures). They typically work on Kubernetes cluster operators, related Go web microservices and CLI utilities written in Go, Python, or Bash, as well as on infrastructure as code and service support.