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I'd love to get away from Go again, but unfortunately it's the hot thing that people see on your resume and then they don't want to talk to you about anything e
by rebeccaskinner 8y ago
I'd love to get away from Go again, but unfortunately it's the hot thing that people see on your resume and then they don't want to talk to you about anything else. I'm very concerned that in a few years it's going to be the terrible low-paying boring thing that people see on your resume and don't want to talk to you about anything else.
- throwaway415415 8y agoIts the hot thing for a reason. Adapt or be left out.
- rebeccaskinner 8y agoI've been using Go in production for 5 years now, I don't think there's a lot of adapting left to do. From the other side of a few years of experience I think I see the reality of the situation pretty clearly. Go isn't a good language by any means. It's the hot thing because it's a marginally less painful blub than python or java and cheap entry-level developers can be onboarded to it quickly and be left to churn out boring but largely unharmful code. On top of it's programming with mittens mentality it had the force multiplier effect of becoming the devops language dejure. I think the staying power of Go is largely dependent on whether or not the industry finds the current state of devops a local maxima that it sticks on for a while, or whether things push further into PaaS territory and the current devops tooling becomes irrelevant for everyone except the big cloud platform implementers.