The goal at the time I thought was very sound: it was a massive PITA that Go programs that ran on cloud servers (of which I would hazard most of them do) were not Write Once Run Anywhere. It was all the same stuff, right? A blob store. A SQL backend. Etc etc. What we wanted was to say “you write a Go program, here run it on GCP. Then Azure. Why not AliBaba if you’re in China”.

What I am no longer convinced of today is that anyone is really looking for those greased rails because it’s _so much more complicated_ to run on cloud servers than I envisioned. Surely it was going to get more simple? But it didn’t. Networking, authorization, scaling, Kubernetes. The list goes on and on.

A fully uneducated guess is that Wire does what people who come to it want it to do, but it’s not attracting new users because the use cases are more constrained than envisaged.