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You've basically whittled the options down to Python. It's still an extremely popular and reliable language, not to mention relatively readable, and in use at t
by autotune 4y ago
You've basically whittled the options down to Python. It's still an extremely popular and reliable language, not to mention relatively readable, and in use at the enterprise level. If you are feeling like you want to be on the bleeding edge you can give Go a try as well, not quite in use as much but still quickly gaining traction and no need to deal with endless packages that you need to install on each system.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoPython is a good choice, not sure if I'd call Go bleeding edge. I'd be more likely to call Rust bleeding edge.
- autotune 4y agoRust was initially released July 7, 2010, Go was released around November 10, 2009, so if we are just looking at that they are actually on roughly equal footing. My understanding is Rust and Go are for mostly different purposes though depending on what your goals are as a dev, like Rust is more for systems level programming whereas Go is for developing portable application binaries with a focus on performance.
- leethaxor 4y agoRust was beta for many years and started becoming mainstream only 2-5 years ago. Go was in production almost its entire existence, it's specifically a simplified language.
- autotune 4y agoThanks for the additional background info, I stand corrected.
- woah 4y agoGo has always embraced a philosophy of not being on the leading edge
- autotune 4y agoYeah I guess calling it that was a foot-in-mouth moment.
- teeray 4y agoI think “bleeding edge” is measured more by mind share than by release date. For example, Ruby was already 9 years old when Rails came out in 2004. That was when it became bleeding edge.
- dhosek 4y agoIt might be my experience level/background at play here, but I’ve been seeing a lot of openings that are either requiring or desiring Go.
- autotune 4y agoCould be different for application devs vs the infra work I do as a SRE. I just know during the last couple of months when I was job searching Python was a common denominator in a given tech stack and a safe bet. Go was a nice to have for the more forward thinking out there.