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dude250711 • yesterday at 7:40 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Yes, just like Go, it's a junior developer onboarding language, that somehow managed to overstay its welcome.


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theplumber • yesterday at 7:43 PM

Go is awesome and has great ecosystem. I think if you want to just deliver Go is one of the best language out there. Of course as long as the project makes sense(I.e no client side/GUI stuff, there it gets messy)

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bheadmaster • yesterday at 7:45 PM

If Go is a junior developer onboarding language, then I proclaim myself a perpetual onboarding junior.

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dizhn • today at 10:06 AM

It's no wonder then that Google used to be all in on Python in the 2000s as a language for juniors and then invented another language with similar users in mind. With AI becoming what it is they probably did not need to do the latter.

Python owes a lot to that initialish Google push where for a few years you couldn't get a job at google without knowing python or you could easily get a job if you knew python. Maybe both.