| That’s the wrong question/assumption to begin with and already doomed. If your goal is maximum financial payoff, it won’t be done with knowing any single programming language. Pick a product/industry first, then pick the mostly optimal tool. The market cap of the product/industry will determine the payoff (unless you’re inventing a completely new sector). Ex: if you work at a hedge fund as a top quant/algo person, C++ will be THE language. Being close to the money, literally trading it as the day job, will reward the most financially. If you think google products and joining google will be the highest payoff, then learn golang. I hear there’s a lot of rust and go in crypto, if that’s your thing (def not mine). If you don’t know what product you want to work on, and are only technically minded, then it doesn’t matter, just pick one and go deep - after you master one, look at the others figure out what’s similar, what you didn’t know - all the languages have the same basic principles; some make trade offs while others provide convenience features. |
The most popular languages at Google are C++ and Java, and both are an order of magnitude more popular at Google than Go :P