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> but I'm sure that takes much longer?

Your people can pick up go reflect package or go routines/channels and co in 1-2 weeks and start contributing? impressive... most people can pick up for loops, if,switch statements, variable and function declaration in a week in any language as well...

In fact, a lot of non programmers use JS regularly to write scripts in the browser. I imagine your people know how to program before hand... So what do you think takes longer to learn? mastering go threading model or being able to add interactivity to the DOM?

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> So what do you think takes longer to learn? mastering go threading model or being able to add interactivity to the DOM?

For me, the go threading model is easier. I just can't stand DOM and web programming in general. Currently working on a problem doing some computation across dozens of cores on multiple servers and go makes it a lot easier to spawn the 1000 goroutines and coordinate between them. I guess everyone has different interests and perhaps it is similar for those we hire.

> For me, the go threading model is easier. I just can't stand DOM and web programming in general.

Because you didn't take the time to learn the DOM, that's all. I doubt learning a simple composite API made of dumb nodes is more difficult than writing thread safe programs in Go. I'm not talking about tastes or interests, I'm talking about ease of learning.

Go isn't 'easy to pick up'. For loops, if statements and co are basic, and they are in all languages, that's my point. There is nothing particularly easy with Go.

go reflect is not commonly used, goroutines are pretty simple to pick up. I have used several large codebases with zero use of reflection. The point of go is it restricts you to 25 keywords (the basics that you sneer at above) so senior people can't get fancy and produce an impenetrable mess/marvel that beginners will take months to orient themselves in.

It is definitely easier to write well than js IMO, and harder to make a big ball of mud in.

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