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Go is not popular at all. In fact, it's losing popularity.
Face it, in 10 years, we'll all still be programming in C and C++ with a bit of assembly language for SIMD vectorization and CL/Scheme for DSLs. For
ENTERPRISE, Java will have become the new Cobol, and Scala will supersede Java. That is to say, pretty much every college and university will be teaching Scala as their primary undergraduate language. In addition, heterogeneous high-performance parallel compute languages like OpenCL (a variant of C99) will have some popularity.
Steve Jobs will be thankfully dead, and Wozniak will have returned to Apple for his final tenure, thus opening up much of Apple's hardware and software to be more friendly to software/hardware hackers. Hipstersexuals will still dominate the target audience for Apple products, unfortunately.
Clang/LLVM will be the most popular open source C/C++ compiler, and GCC will have become a relic.
The year of GNU/Linux on the desktop still won't have occurred.
Richard Matthew Stallman will be living out his final years with Alzheimer's in an old folk's home, forgotten and neglected.
Most computers will be in the form of inexpensive $200 notebooks, tablets, or mobile phones, which all have similar hardware specifications: 16-core ARM CPU + GPU + FPGA SoC fabricated on the world's first 6nm GoS process, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSDs. Most computers will run Windows Destiny Home Premium Edition, but retards will still fall for the over-priced Apple products that cost $400+. No one form-factor will have won out.
Enthusiasts will still spend upwards of $2000 to build their over-powered 64-core CPU, petaflop-capable GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 16TB SSD RAID desktop rigs upon which they will run ``Your Friend Forever'' 1.4, an artificial girlfriend/waifu AI program developed by Markus Persson (aka Notch), which actually passed the Autist-Modified Turing Test in late 2019 (a test, that from the perspective of an autist, determines if an intelligent agent is indistinguishable from a human).
And finally,
/prog/ will be dead.