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Interesting to see. Been a computer-person all my life, but only started programming with Python like 4 years ago. Switched from Python to Go after about a year

Interesting to see. Been a computer-person all my life, but only started programming with Python like 4 years ago. Switched from Python to Go after about a year. Go just seemed much easier to work with. I have still, to this day, not made a single penny with Go. Never been a professional programmer. It's so weird to think that I'm still trying to learn more and more about it and use it for _something_. Go really pulled me in somehow. I blame Todd McLeod and Jon Calhoun ;) Ultimately the value of Go for me seemed to be quick-access to lots of buzzwordy things I wanted to make use of. Concurrency, web-apps, internet / online - infrastructure things. (Funnily enough I still don't use concurrency much or properly at all. Like, years in and I still don't.) There is hardly a greater feeling than to make something work, to figure something out. To know you've learned something. I just hope that one day that will actually turn into money. That seems to be the trickiest part. Hmmmm.

syndacks 6y ago
I'm curious what it is that you do for work? You mention not making money from Go (or programming) -- what are your goals? Is it a startup kind of thing, or employment as a developer? I feel like you could probably get a job if you're familiar with Go and Python you can probably start interviewing.
- throwaway77384 6y ago
  I was a (technical, mostly) project manager for about 10 years and then decided I didn't like that career anymore. I am indeed trying to get a small product out there. If, however, that does not work, I'd be looking into employment as a developer. It's kind of hard to gauge how I might operate in a team environment. I also wonder how to even begin assessing my experience level. I am certainly not shooting for the stars, but also getting stuck in a proto-2-proto role would probably be terrible ;)

syndacks 6y ago

I'm curious what it is that you do for work? You mention not making money from Go (or programming) -- what are your goals? Is it a startup kind of thing, or employment as a developer? I feel like you could probably get a job if you're familiar with Go and Python you can probably start interviewing.

throwaway77384 6y ago
I was a (technical, mostly) project manager for about 10 years and then decided I didn't like that career anymore. I am indeed trying to get a small product out there. If, however, that does not work, I'd be looking into employment as a developer. It's kind of hard to gauge how I might operate in a team environment. I also wonder how to even begin assessing my experience level. I am certainly not shooting for the stars, but also getting stuck in a proto-2-proto role would probably be terrible ;)