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Are you using Go exclusively?

All the jobs I see are Ruby + Go or Python + Go, which makes it pointless to learn Go if you don't care about Ruby or Python.

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> Are you using Go exclusively?

Pretty much, in my career. Sure, i know plenty of languages, but my day job is slinking Go.

I honestly don't want to program in Python any more. I never thought I'd say that, but it's true.

I'd guess a lot of the X + Go jobs are porting from X to Go.

This appears to be a common story. We ported a bunch of Python 2.7 to Go. The improvements in speed and memory consumption are outstanding.

But we will be upgrading a large code-base from 2.7 to 3.x. For things like web data aggregation and parsing, it is hard to beat Python; the tooling in that space is really good.

Definitely looking forward to some unicode pain alleviation from the rewrite.

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