Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by NateDad 2512 days ago
Man you Go haters LOOOVE to trot out that quote from 2014.

But you know what, go is easy to learn, and that's been awesome in my experience. I can (and have) hired people who have never written go, and they're productive in a week or two.

1 comments

That's not really a good metric to target. They can be productive in a week, and because the language is very weak and verbose, you'll end up with a messy code base. I see this all the time at an employer.
....in Go?