Radar · Go · Archive · Week 38 · Sep 15 – 21, 2025

It's survey time! How has Go been working out for you?

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What changed: A blog post announces a new Go survey.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Visit the link and fill out the survey.
Source: go.dev/blog/survey2025-announce

Understand it, then run it

Go has announced a new annual survey for 2025. The survey is open until September 30th and is meant to gather feedback from developers about how they use Go and what they need. All questions are optional, and participants can choose whether their responses are shared in the public dataset. The Go team will publish aggregated results in early November and will also release the raw data for community analysis.

Run it now

Todaygo

// This program demonstrates how to print the URL of the 2025 Go Developer Survey.
// The survey URL is provided in the blog post and is not part of the Go language.
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	// Survey link from the Go blog announcement
	surveyURL := "https://go.dev/blog/survey2025"
	fmt.Println("Take the 2025 Go Developer Survey at:", surveyURL)
}

What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1

Take the 2025 Go Developer Survey at: https://go.dev/blog/survey2025

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Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed