Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by cmrdporcupine on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:09PM (#23714796)

I mean, strictly speaking I should downvote you for tone... but I am laughing ;-)

I know people who work at Capital One, I wonder how extensive Go usage is there...

I have started looking at job postings recently and I see a lot that have aspirational-Go in their postings. I have managed to avoid Go during my tenure here at Google (which isn't hard since it's not used much at all, despite what people outside of Google seem to think), but I'm starting to worry that if I move on I'm going to have to take a job writing it.

Who is hiring remote for Rust, Zig, OCaml, or Erlang? Those seem more palatable to me? :-)

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by frockington1 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:39PM (#23715092)

Before learning a new language I always look at Linkedin for open jobs. Last week, I could find next to nothing for anything Rust and OCaml. I eventually decided to modernize my C++ skills to be relevant again

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by dbolgheroni on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:04PM (#23716765)

What does aspirational-Go means?

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by blandflakes on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#23718008)

I assumed it was job posts in the vein of "new code written in Go" or "migrating systems to Go", kinda like when somebody says "monolith moving to microservices" but actually you spend 95% of the time working on the monolith.

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