| > We're talking about general purpose languages. Well, kind of. But in practice, you have to agree that even theoretically "general purpose languages" either fall or get pushed into niches. For example, Ruby. In real life, mass usage, Ruby is at this point a 1-trick pony, web apps with Rails. While Rails was the rage, it tried and did break out into DevOps, but all those efforts have kind of fallen by the wayside (Chef - a shame, really, Puppet, etc). Another example, Rust is a general programming language, but few people will actually use it for Line of Business GUI apps, for example. It's just too hard to get started with it and there's no point, you gain too little from its advantages to work so hard through that learning curve. Same thing for Java and C#. Most companies that will hire you to write something in those languages will probably do it for backend services, plus Java Android apps because Google chose it for that (and then chose Kotlin) and C# Windows apps (but how many people are really writing those these days?). For Go almost everything I've seen is also for backend services. So in day-to-day life they are direct competitors. Kudos to Go that it got this far and we're putting it into the same league with Java and C#, it's quite an achievement! I do agree with your principle but in practice most projects are brownfield and your tools have already been chosen by someone else :-) |