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React is obvious, it's included with nearly every front-end posting these days whether the company uses it or not.

But other than that it looks like it is a good time to be a data engineer or a Gopher. I'm surprised that Go is the only high growth language, but I guess it coincides with Docker/DevOps/Sysadmin growth.

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IMO Go is a spiritual sequel to Java. Both strongly focus on programming for multiple platforms by large teams.

I don't think that go puts as much emphasis on cross platform.

It's the spiritual successor for Java running on servers - supporting Linux and OSX is all that's necessary.

Why OsX? Just for local development purposes? I don't think I've seen any OsX servers except as build machines for iOS builds.

Yes.

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