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Re:Why we switched from Python to Go by sidlls on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:59PM (#15496355)
High quality Java and Go developers are more expensive than Ruby and JS webdevs, partly because there are just so many of the latter.
Re:Why we switched from Python to Go by slackingoff2017 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:30PM (#15504202)
Java and Go are much harder to learn. Much more complex from a language perspective, more complicated build process, bigger standard libraries.

This leads to a lot of "first languages" being the latter and a perpetual glut of recent grads that know nothing else so will do those jobs for less