That's a fun analogy. Most of my coding these days is definitely in the 'for fun' bucket given my current role. So I'd rather take 5x and have fun. That said,

That's a fun analogy. Most of my coding these days is definitely in the 'for fun' bucket given my current role. So I'd rather take 5x and have fun. That said, I don't think Go is only fun, I think it's also a viable option for many backend projects where you'd traditionally have reached for Java / C#. And IMO, it sure beats the recent tendency of having JS/Python powering backend microservices.