By Paul Krill
The Go programming language is viewed by developers who build AI-powered applications and services as a strong platform for running those workloads. Nevertheless, Python is viewed by Go developers as the language to use when starting AI-powered work, according to a recent survey of Go developers.
In the semi-annual Go Developer Survey for 2024, conducted in January and February by the Go team at Google, survey respondents who build AI-powered applications and services shared a sense that Go was a strong platform for running these types of workloads in production. A majority of respondents working with AI-powered applications already use Go or would like to migrate to Go for AI workloads.
The most commonly documented paths for beginning with AI, however, were Python-centric, the survey indicated. This has resulted in many organizations starting AI-powered work in Python before moving to a more “production-ready” language. The most common kinds of AI-powered services respondents reported building were summarization tools, text generation tools, and chatbots.
The results of the Go Developer Survey 2024 H1 were published April 9. The survey received a total of 6,224 responses. In other findings:
