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by geodel 1304 days ago
Well there are all sorts of programming. Writing code from scratch to solve problems, writing glue code to connect various libraries, fill in the gaps in code generated by framework scaffolding, drag-n-drop blocks in diagrams and code is generated in the background and so on.

Java/SpringBoot/etc micro services developers have certain way of doing things and they are certainly going to hit lot of problems with Go. Since I have worked in typical Java/J2EE/Microservices project all my career, I think, for most devs coming from larger Java ecosystem, mapping their existing understanding to Go way of doing things is pretty much impossible.