Comment by ainar-g
4 years ago
> If you help beginners develop into intermediate and then advanced programmers, guess what? You have to pay them more.
That doesn't seem like a good argument with regards to Go specifically, since Go is among the most high-paying technologies, at least according to Stack Overflow surveys[1]. At the same level as “LISP” (which Lisp is it, StackOverflow?) and only slightly below Rust and Scala, both of which are way more complex languages.
[1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-top-p...
> Go is among the most high-paying technologies
I like go just fine, and I'm learning it as we speak. But I think the high pay scale has more to do with *where* it's being used more than anything else.
Go is very popular in SV, whereas most fortune 500 and other legacy companies are java world.
My issue is more with this current obsession that everything must be beginner friendly. The fact is beginners don't stay beginners very long, so it's a dumb group to optimize for.