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GO is always listed as popular, but if I search my entire country for GO jobs there isn’t a single one. Well, there is one single listing, but that’s for a C/C++ job at Google, and it’s listed under “Nice to know” along with Rust and a few others.

Are we behind the curve?

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Go is certainly somewhat popular in the US, but imo the language isn't well suited for all tasks.

It is well suited for most tasks though.

I would argue that no language is suited for all tasks. Some can handle more tasks than others tho.

Norwegian here. Searched for "Golang", which yielded a whooping 4 results. "Go" gave me 8, but of those only two were the main language, the rest lumped it in the nice to know category.

Python on the other hand yielded almost 200.

In the UK Go jobs are so prevalent it's insane. But then again we have a lot of fintech, AI and blockchain startups that are knocking about so that could be a contributing factor.

Having Go experience on my resume, I do get a lot of recruiters reaching out to me for Go jobs. It's quite popular for infrastructure work.

This is in the US, not sure if it's the same in other countries.

Most companies will hire targeting the language that the vast majority of the company is using: often Java or JavaScript depending on the role.

They will also have often have projects in "support languages" for internal tools and services. Often in python atleast, and more and more in Go. Those are often unlisted.

Edit: Just noticed you said in your country. I suspect this is true broadly but what do I know?

Just did the same thing for my US city. There were a total of 5 job postings from scummy head hunting companies.

Try to search Golang.

It's a trendy language. It will increase in popularity (e.g. developers want to learn it because it's new) until it eventually wanes. Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby?

This page shows job postings per programming language from searches on Indeed.com: https://www.codeplatoon.org/the-best-paying-and-most-in-dema... Go isn't on the list. The TIOBE index has Go at #17: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

I remember Ruby, and it’s a similar story really. There is one Ruby shop in my region.

People really need to break down salary analysis by region.

If a skill commands a higher salary, does that mean I can actually get paid for it more in Houston, or does it mean that it's only used in tech hubs which pay way more to keep up with cost of living?

> Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby?

There is an absolutely mind-boggling amount of Ruby jobs in the US.

Yeah I'd love to work in Go, but there are so few jobs it either isn't worth it or makes it risky to specialize in it.

What is your job search engine?

What is your country, out of curiosity?

Denmark.

The homeland of the inventors of both C++ and Python. I'm sure there's no favouritism in play at all...

Guido is Dutch, not Danish.

Well not Python, that’s Dutch. Danes did have a hand in Ruby, PHP and a few others, but it doesn’t really show around here. The most listed language is JAVA.

The inventor of PHP is Danish, and Anders Hejlsberg is also Danish, so we had a hand in C# and TypeScript as well. However, this doesn't mean there is a nationally endorsed programming language.

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