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Unless you are a committer to Ruby now, or plan to invest in learning more powerful languages, Go probably isn't a good choice. I run a pure Go shop and we gene
by dsl 14y ago
Unless you are a committer to Ruby now, or plan to invest in learning more powerful languages, Go probably isn't a good choice. I run a pure Go shop and we generally look for people with hardcore C (not C++ or C#) or systems/kernel backgrounds or at least one open source Go library under their belt.
If you're just looking for another language to get away from the cesspit that is Ruby, try Python.
- cmccabe 14y agoHey man... hire people, not years of experience in X. Let's not pidgeonhole people because of what languages they've used in the past.
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoDo you mean you believe that people using Ruby are either Ruby committers, or people with only pure Ruby experience? If this is true, I think you'll miss some great candidates, to be honest. Things I did before, for instance, include: - writing real-time 2D/3D rendering engines, mixing C++, TurboPascal, Asm - low-level assembly code, writing keyboard hardware interrupt handlers, TSR, video-cards tweaking etc - porting C-libraries from Solaris to Windows - writing a full GUI toolkit - writing 2D games - wrapping C and C++ libraries into .Net - writing a cluster of satellite images processing with PVM Etc (apart from using Java, .Net, Ruby, CoffeeScript etc). To make my point clear: the good rubyists I know have a lot of past experience, similar to this. Talking about "cesspit" is not giving good signals about how you consider other technical choices, either :-)