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I wonder why they didn't go with Java. It would have been a good fit with the additional benefit of not having to pay the premium Go devs go for (Go dev here).

by bliti 11y ago

danieldk 11y ago
Did someone gather salary statistics? I could imagine it could also be the other way around: hordes of Go fans competing for a relatively small amount of jobs drives prices down.
- eatonphil 11y ago
  Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that people would compete for jobs because of a language? Especially a new language? Would anyone seriously give up a job just for the opportunity to program in another language? Perhaps this is a bigger thing among corporate programmers? I've only worked at smaller companies where they are more open to experimenting if you talk them into it.
  - pbreit 11y ago
    I think it's the opposite. The corporate programmer might not care about Go vs Java. But in a smaller company, Go is going to be more desirable.
  - zurn 11y ago
    Many programmers have fairly strong preferences about programming languages and definitely many people would consider a Go job more desirable than a Java job. Most of those people aren't currently Java programmers - it's said[1] that Go is largely attracting people from dynamic languages and not from C++/Java. [1] See this essay from Rob Pike where he says Go is attracting programmers mostly from dynamic languages (though he raises C++ programmers as the chief contrast, but still mentions Java too) : http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
  - danieldk 11y ago
    It's an interesting phenomenon indeed. Coming from C++ and Prolog, I disliked Java quite a bit, but took two positions where Java was the main language (because they were interesting NLP/ML positions). In the end it's a tool to get interesting work done. I follow some PL lists and there seems to be a sizeable group of people who prefer a position in their favorite language. Of course, I don't know what portion of the overal market they represent.

I wonder why they didn't go with Java. It would have been a good fit with the additional benefit of not having to pay the premium Go devs go for (Go dev here).

by bliti 11y ago

I wonder why they didn't go with Java. It would have been a good fit with the additional benefit of not having to pay the premium Go devs go for (Go dev here).

danieldk 11y ago

Did someone gather salary statistics? I could imagine it could also be the other way around: hordes of Go fans competing for a relatively small amount of jobs drives prices down.

eatonphil 11y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that people would compete for jobs because of a language? Especially a new language? Would anyone seriously give up a job just for the opportunity to program in another language? Perhaps this is a bigger thing among corporate programmers? I've only worked at smaller companies where they are more open to experimenting if you talk them into it.
- pbreit 11y ago
  I think it's the opposite. The corporate programmer might not care about Go vs Java. But in a smaller company, Go is going to be more desirable.
- zurn 11y ago
  Many programmers have fairly strong preferences about programming languages and definitely many people would consider a Go job more desirable than a Java job. Most of those people aren't currently Java programmers - it's said[1] that Go is largely attracting people from dynamic languages and not from C++/Java. [1] See this essay from Rob Pike where he says Go is attracting programmers mostly from dynamic languages (though he raises C++ programmers as the chief contrast, but still mentions Java too) : http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.fi/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
- danieldk 11y ago
  It's an interesting phenomenon indeed. Coming from C++ and Prolog, I disliked Java quite a bit, but took two positions where Java was the main language (because they were interesting NLP/ML positions). In the end it's a tool to get interesting work done. I follow some PL lists and there seems to be a sizeable group of people who prefer a position in their favorite language. Of course, I don't know what portion of the overal market they represent.