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Do you have any data or survey to back your statement? Forgive me if I've misunderstood you but are you saying that Golang is mostly used by young programmers?

• robonerd 4y ago
  There are two parts of my comment. The first part paraphrases what Rob Pike said about the purpose of Golang, in his presentation at Lang NEXT 2014: > "The key point here is that our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically fairly young, fresh out of school. Probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language. But we want to be able to use them to build good software. And so the language we give them needs to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." The second part is based on my personal observations of human nature. Young and relatively inexperienced engineers often form a sort of personal attachment to whatever technology is enabling their new career. With this personal attachment comes a perception of attack against their person when that technology is criticized. This is a broad phenomena, not unique to golang by any means, but golang happens to be one of the languages that is popular with and promoted to young engineers. In discussions critical about golang, or javascript, or C, or python, there will often be young or otherwise inexperienced engineers interpreting criticism of the tool to be personal attacks.
• pjmlp 4y ago
  Yes, you just needed to search for Lang NEXT 2014 and Rob Pike. Enjoy the video, https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." Or if you prefer reading, https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article "It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical."
  • robonerd 4y ago
    > https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA That link is to a panel Rob Pike participated in at the same conference. I'm not sure if he makes similar remarks during that panel, but that "fairly young, fresh out of school" quote specifically comes from Rob Pike's presentation at the same conference titled From Parallel to Concurrent, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrP_EmGNmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrP_EmGNmw
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      You're right, thanks for the correction.