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I am a senior java developer in the cloud/distributed arch/ microservice area.

I've touched on golang in the past, but not learnt it in any formal/extensive way.

I see it cropping up in many java/microservice positions, and I'm curious if this is at some point going to overtake java in my area.

The current benchmarks seem to suggest that if autoscaling is key to your services, golang is the way to, well, go.

I looked at the job market and it doesn't yet seem to have taken over, but I'm curious how this is likely to play out over the next decade and if quakus for example is likely to become more competitive against golang. Interestingly, golang specific roles on average pay less than java ones in my area.

Let me know your thoughts or if you have any good articles / content on the subject.

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[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have been mostly writing C++ for more than 20 years, but TOBIE seems useless (again...) Visual Basic and Pascal have better ratings than Kotlin or Rust? I don't believe it.

[–] misterbngo@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIOBE merely measures the number of questions asked about a particular language online, which is obviously not exactly realistic metric but people for some reason love to spout it

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 3 points 2 days ago

That makes sense. I didn't find many surveys available, so I referenced the ones I could find.