> it just happens that HN is a place where people are hyping the latest & greatest stuff - until it turns out that it isn't _that_ better than the old stuff.

> it just happens that HN is a place where people are hyping the latest & greatest stuff - until it turns out that it isn't _that_ better than the old stuff. That brought a smile to my face. I've been saying this about Java since 1994. > from a recruitment perspective it's extremely easy to find (experienced) Java devs, From my experience, that is true in the literal sense of "experienced = having experience". But not so true in the sense of "experienced = competent and knows their stuff", which is often implied. One of the things about new and fringe languages is that they are effectively a competence filter: It is much more likely that e.g. a Lisp programmer, a Haskell programmer, an OCaml programmer or a $NEW_HOTNESS programmer for most values of $NEW_HOTNESS is a good one. I suspect Go is beyond NEW_HOTNESS status to work as a filter, though.