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Which language released in the last 10 years is more popular then ? Golang is arguably niche and does not offer the huge flexibility and ecosystem of say Python
by kayoone 9y ago
Which language released in the last 10 years is more popular then ? Golang is arguably niche and does not offer the huge flexibility and ecosystem of say Python, so i am pretty sure it will never come close to that, but there are a good number of usescases where it arguably is the best choice.
- cutler 9y agoScala, with 164 jobs in London and 225 nationwide, has been around for about the same time as a production-quality release. I raised the point because I think Golang's coverage on HN is disproportionate to its significance in the job market.
- mathw 9y agoSignificance in the job market has never correlated well with how excited people get about things. Hacker News is about stuff we're interested in, which is not necessarily stuff we get employed to do.
- snaky 9y agoLondon is about 'fintech', so Scala is in great demand. SF Bay Area is about 'webscale' so Go is popular, as it established as The Cloud Automation language. And HN crowd is mostly leaning to SF. OTOH you wouldn't find a great demand for Oracle DBA or C# skills in The Valley, and that's not because they are not in great demand somewhere else - maybe even basically everywhere else like C#. Places lean to some niche or other, and vice versa. Apple places its growing hardware teams in Texas despite new campus in The Valley and all that. Why? Because Austin is very much hardware place.
- bpicolo 9y agoScala is 13 years old. Golang was first publicly released 7 years ago