Being proficient and using it are two different things. A year to learn? What are you talking about, in a year you can get someone who never used a computer bey

Being proficient and using it are two different things. A year to learn? What are you talking about, in a year you can get someone who never used a computer beyond a browser to learn just about any commonly used programming language. Yes, they won't be level 99999 one-man-army ninja fullstack senior engineer, but they would be able to write code. If you had 10 years of java, you can absolutely learn how to write Go in 3 days, unless your 10 years of java is "writing CRUD in Java 6 with libraries available in 2006".