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Yeah really the only realistic question is, what's (most) everything else written in? Company's don't spend much time debating programming languages unless ther

• capableweb 4y ago
  > unless there's a _really_ compelling reason to switch Agree, if the company is all using Golang for mostly everything, and a new service appears that is supposed to run on embedded devices, a judgement gets made if to still go with Golang or go for something else. What the survey results is saying though is that 42% doesn't even do the bare minimum to figure out if there is compelling reasons.
  • endorphine 4y ago
    > What the survey results is saying though is that 42% doesn't even do the bare minimum to figure out if there is compelling reasons. It doesn't say this necessarily. It may very well mean that "Go worked well for us, while X didn't, and we have no compelling reason to try out Y now. Let's go with Go". Or it may mean that they previously evaluated other languages (e.g. from previous jobs) so they didn't have to do it this time. They were all on the same page that the language is a good fit so they short-circuited the decision. If I spend 1 minute in deciding the language to use for a project, I wouldn't exactly call it that I evaluated other languages. But my decision is based on past experiences with other languages. I think you're jumping to conclusions.