Many programmers have fairly strong preferences about programming languages and definitely many people would consider a Go job more desirable than a Java job. M

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...