Comment by jopsen

4 months ago

Because docker was written in golang.

And before docker, not many large applications were.

Ironically, also because Go is one of few popular languages for web applications that can produce a single executable binary and does not require a container to deploy with ease.

I think there's a pretty big citation needed on that part of the article. I'm not clear that Docker contributed to that anywhere near as much as a general increase of momentum around Go as it became better known in the industry.