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I'd love for languages to be win/win scenarios, but it does seem they are a bit of a zero sum game. The team you're on will need to pick a language, if it's not the language you prefer you lose, so it's natural to want to influence others.

If you prefer Go, and are on a Java team, you'll want to convince others that Go is far superior, and vice versa.

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> If you prefer Go, and are on a Java team, you'll want to convince others that Go is far superior, and vice versa.

If you prefer Go, and are on a Java team, does arguing with people that are unrelated to your work on the internet change your working environment?

Indeed lists 30k Java jobs and 2k golang jobs. OP has a vested interest in marketing their preferred language to increase the availability of jobs for that preferred language.

You kinda skipped the relevant part of my question.

Does arguing on the internet with Java fans increase Go's usage at hypothetical person's work?

If more people in the industry appreciate concise and powerful languages that reward deep expertise, I am more likely to find paid work where I can be happy and productive in the future. I started in C, and it’s pretty alarming to see an impoverished language gaining market share after years of progress; that’s why I argue the bar should be getting higher for new languages in production.

Indeed. Ironically, the only reason we're in a thread talking about Go is years of "Go is so much simpler than language X" propaganda, without which it would have never gained such a hold in the industry zeitgeist.

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