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by nivertech 2540 days ago
No language is a thing of the past, since there are lots of projects and codebases written in it. Hell, people still using PHP and Perl. But they are not the first choice for starting a new project.

What will happen is that with time no greenfield project will be started with Golang and it will gradually become a legacy language.
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hu3 2540 days ago
Vague statements like this contribute nothing to the conversation.

Specially when they go against data https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/

> Go - The most promising programming language. Go started out with a share of 8% in 2017 and now it has reached 18%. In addition, the biggest number of developers (13%) chose Go as a language they would like to adopt or migrate to.

And this https://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2019

> Go is the language that developers want to learn the most in 2019

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sho 2540 days ago
Not really defending the vague statements of the person you're replying to, but I'd take those surveys with a giant grain of salt. There's just too much selection bias at work. I for one struggle to imagine how any company could ever induce me to take one of these surveys, and I doubt I'm that special a snowflake. 49% of devs have used python in the last 12 months? And 50% java? Huh? Who are these people?

Probably the best we can do is analyses such as github's [1], which doesn't rely on people responding to marketing emails to reach a conclusion - but I'd say even that is very far from the big picture. Most large IT organisations still run their version control, for example. Hell, I'm still coming across PHP and JS programmers in 2019 that don't use any source control. Professionals. At agencies. Yeah.

None of this is to rain on golang's parade - it's a solid language IMO, despite the hype around it encouraging many people to, again IMO, optimize prematurely. Just to remind that an output is only as good as its inputs.

[1] https://github.blog/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-top-pr...

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hu3 2539 days ago
Fully agree, but I find surveys better than intuition.

On that matter you'll find plenty of Rust advocates referring to SO's survey stating it's the most loved language. They will however try to downplay surveys which report that Go's adoption is far superior and distancing.

With that said I find comparing Go and Rust an exercise in futility since the usecases rarely intersect.

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nivertech 2540 days ago
It's "vague", because it's a statement about the future.

Unfortunately I don't have data from the future, but I do have a good intuition about the future trends ;)

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crispinb 2539 days ago
The only way to know that you have previously had 'good intuitions' about the future would be if you recorded them (memory doesn't cut it) and then compared them with a subsequent events. Then you'd have to find a way of demonstrating that past intuitive success is an indicator of future intuitive success. Unless you've done all this, you only have an intuition that your intuition for future trends is good.

It's intuition all the way down.

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