Go

Programming language by Google

Healthy · 90/100

Automated health estimate

The score summarizes repository activity. Funding is unknown and excluded from the score. These repository signals do not establish financial stability, security, or maintainer availability. How to interpret this data.

Funding

Unknown

Maintenance

Active

Contributors

Many observed

Bus Factor

Low risk

Metrics last updated: today (2026-10-25)

Evidence and limitations

Activity source: golang/go via the GitHub API. Counts describe this repository, which may be a mirror or only part of the project.

Commits in 30 days: 456
Commits in 90 days: 1147
Authors accounting for half the sampled commits: 6

The 200-commit author sample does not cover the full 90 days. Author counts are lower bounds; concentration describes the sample only.

Few commits can reflect mature software. Commit authors do not establish merge rights, available maintainers, organizational diversity, or knowledge distribution. Funding is unknown; donation links alone do not establish income or runway.

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Ways to help Go

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People associated with this project

Profiles include creators, contributors, and former maintainers. This is not a complete roster of the current team.

Rob Pike

Go Language Co-Creator

Ken Thompson

Unix and Go Co-Creator

Maintainer Continuity

Ken Thompson Retired

Rob Pike Co maintainer since 2012-01-01

Ken retired from Google in 2012. Go is now maintained by the Go team at Google, led by Russ Cox.

This section tracks succession planning for project maintainers.

Overview

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google. It is syntactically similar to C but with memory safety, garbage collection, and structural typing.

Importance

Powers cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker)
Foundation for modern DevOps tooling
Critical for backend services
Growing adoption in enterprise

Key Features

Fast compilation
Garbage collection
Built-in concurrency
Simple, clean syntax

Sustainability

Financial sustainability and maintainer capacity have not yet been reviewed against current primary sources. See the evidence and support sections above for available information and a way to suggest corrections.