--- title: Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey | daily.dev description: The 2025 Go Developer Survey reveals that 91% of developers are satisfied with Go, primarily valuing its holistic platform approach, standard library, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/6y6otelc3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey | daily.dev og:description: The 2025 Go Developer Survey reveals that 91% of developers are satisfied with Go, primarily valuing its holistic platform approach, standard library, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/6y6otelc3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6Y6oTeLC3.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey **[Go Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/golangnuts)** · [@func25](https://daily.dev/func25) · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The 2025 Go Developer Survey reveals that 91% of developers are satisfied with Go, primarily valuing its holistic platform approach, standard library, and tooling. Key challenges include identifying best practices, missing language features from other ecosystems (especially error handling and enums), and finding trustworthy modules. Most developers now use AI-powered tools for learning and repetitive tasks, though satisfaction is middling due to code quality concerns. Surprisingly, 15-25% of developers frequently need documentation for core go commands, indicating room for improvement in the help system. The survey also shows decreased entry-level adoption and continued dominance of VS Code and GoLand as preferred editors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/6y6otelc3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/6y6otelc3","headline":"Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey","text":"Shared: Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/6y6otelc3","datePublished":"2026-01-22T18:17:49.428Z","dateModified":"2026-01-22T18:17:49.431Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Phuong Le","url":"https://daily.dev/func25","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HbVBqLGd--/f_auto,q_auto/v1697862633/avatars/avatar_s1rxG2e5sEfVSY1wCzdr8","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":8705}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/1aHMO98uB"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/golangnuts","name":"Go Developers"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Go Developers","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/golangnuts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey"}]} ```