Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey

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  Todd Kulesza, on behalf of the Go team<br>
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Hello! In this article we’ll discuss the results of the 2025 Go Developer Survey, conducted during September 2025.

Thank you to the 5,379 Go developers who responded to our survey invitation this year. Your feedback helps both the Go team at Google and the wider Go community understand the current state of the Go ecosystem and prioritize projects for the year ahead.

Our three biggest findings are:

Broadly speaking, Go developers asked for help with identifying and applying best practices, making the most of the standard library, and expanding the language and built-in tooling with more modern capabilities.

Most Go developers are now using AI-powered development tools when seeking information (e.g., learning how to use a module) or toiling (e.g., writing repetitive blocks of similar code), but their satisfaction with these tools is middling due, in part, to quality concerns.

A surprisingly high proportion of respondents said they frequently need to review documentation for core go subcommands, including go build, go run, and go mod, suggesting meaningful room for improvement with the go command’s help system.

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Get the full details here: Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey - The Go Programming Language