Even with Go being comparitvely simpler, I could go either way on whether it was the right choice to add it to the stack.
How do you manage to get a job as a developer without having ever learned this stuff?
Are these people that are just self taught straight to javascript / ruby?
I mean, are CS course nowadays so bad that students come out of them without understanding things like type-theory, pointers etc
Many of my coworkers (myself included) entered the profession through bootcamps. Others came up during the PHP/Wordpress to Ruby/Rails era of web development, and never had a reason to learn languages like C++ or Java. I don't think there's anything to make fun of, or apologize for in this scenario.
Bootcamps do not teach things like pointers, type-theory, or big-O notation. I'm not sure what they do teach, I'm self-taught and via MIT Open Courseware + other net resources, have learned a lot about those, but I have no idea how that compares to either bootcamps or modern CS courses. Not all of my colleagues know about pointers or type-theory, but the senior ones do.
I don't know if my experience is unusual though.
edit: nicer formatting.