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Go has been a career kickstarter for me and gambling on it for a multi year ecommerce project was a hit, for me at least. I switched from so-so Java dev to Senior Dev, Go Trainer and Systems Architect and Go played a very big part.

It has its' shortcomings, but what i have learned due to just writing stuff instead of using enterprise frameworks was eye opening and i would be a comoletely different lerson today.

Thank you dear Go team & community!

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I can second this. From being proficient in multiple languages to then picking up Go for primarily API service's I'm not looking back. It has taken a little while to level up to expert but the effort in learning how to build from the ground up by not using a framework is well worth it!

Yeah there is a lot of freedom that comes from a smaller set of choices. Java is so vast and so many libraries it is overwhelming and solutions are usually over engineered. With Go its nice to just write some code.

I am a C# developer. I don't like that the number of features and frameworks is increasing with every new release. It's overwhelming.

I tried Go, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know why. I guess it's like leaving prison. You can't go anywhere. Then suddenly you can go anywhere you like, but you feel paralyzed. The freedom itself is also overwhelming.

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