[thequantizer]

I used to be a Java developer and now I am a Golang dev. I moved from a very large company (1000's of devs) to a medium size one (about 100 devs) and would say there are interesting difference in the culture of developers around languages. My experience is that Java shops have a way of doing things based on years of debate. However, I also noticed that there where a lot of devs who just took the "best practices" at face value without much thought so there was a huge amount of friction when you wanted to do something different. Largely centered around who didn't really know why they did stuff a specific way. When I switched to a Golang shop it was much different, a lot more freedom around what to do as there was just not enough time for all those "industry standard" ways of programming to take root. I like this freedom, and the learning that goes with it, a lot more though it dose come at a cost. I have seen several coding practices I feel will cause issues, use of global variables to do testing for mocks, singletons, things like that. Basically, what I am saying is you might want to try a job that operates in a newer language if wanting to try new things is what you are looking for. If the company is open to a newer language the are probably open to new ideas as well. That has been my experience at least.