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In my region of Denmark I think there has been one Go job offer in the past 5 years on linkedin, and it was for some Google PHD job mainly working with C++ wher
by devjab 3y ago
In my region of Denmark I think there has been one Go job offer in the past 5 years on linkedin, and it was for some Google PHD job mainly working with C++ where it was listed among like 20 other programming languages.
I think these things will depend a lot on the where. Around here the job market is pretty much all C#, Java and Typescript for "general purpose" development. There is still a strong PHP presence for web and C/C++ owns the embedded market, but other than that you'll be hard pressed to find a programming job. There are quite a lot of Python jobs as well, but they are almost exclusively for mathematicians who work in ML, AI and/or BI.
We did a few proof of concepts in different languages around august last year, Go being one of them, and found the language to be fairly immature and quickly dropped it. This is obviously very anecdotal, but basically every Go package we would look at would be fairly unmaintained. Often it seemed like one or a few developers at some organization decided to use Go and build something rather brilliant, that then went unmaintained as those developers found new work.
- yawaramin 3y agoThanks for the response, but I am looking for concrete data (statistics, really), not anecdotal experiences.