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Nice article...

Over here I've invested a lot in Java, to be used where static typing is necessary, JavaScript (Node.Js), Elixir and PHP on other occasions. But it's beginning to look like Go will displace Java. So, might be high time we learned Go :/

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It's only in hyped up circles where you hear that golang will displace Java. The latter is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future, and it keeps improving, whereas golang is stuck in the 70's.

The only production Go code I ever see is in a kubernetes operator. The backend services I see deployed are probably 75% JVM, 25% Node, and less than 1% something else.

Go is popular at Google, but we're kind of past the point where something being popular at Google makes it popular everywhere.

Twitch.tv uses mostly Go AFAIK. Where I work we use Go in all our services. There's plenty of uses of Go. You just won't ever hear about them, because why would you? You see Java and Node because that's all you've ever worked with. I see Erlang, .NET and Go, because that's all I've ever worked with.

Work at a large telecom co., who used to be Java only, I only write Go. Hn threads like this is when you realize it's core user base.

(googler, opinions are my own)

Google still has LOTS of C++ and Java. Like most companies, we're not going to rewrite large code bases in other languages just because its "new" (comparatively). Greenfield projects can move to new languages more easily.

Just look at the recent Java 16 hn thread. Java is not going anywhere in the next 2 decades.

Umm ... what exactly makes you say that?

Very soon whoishiring will start a thread for April. I bet you are going to see more Go opportunities than Java.

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