[ducktective]

Your "entry level" dev finished a non-trivial Go app in about an hour without knowing anything about Go? Literally how?

Also he learned enough Clojure to mess around in, again with 0 knowledge about it. Again impressive. Or is this industry standard competency in some fields?

[primax]

A data dip via a single http endpoint is very easy to implement in go. Like 6-8 lines of code easy, with tons of examples available online