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Javascript and Java reign supreme. No trendy wanky languages like the ones mentioned on here all the time will ever be up there. Companies just pretend they "use go" to attract the trendy people here, when in reality "use go" means "there was a project once that we used go for" and 99% of their code is javascript and java.


Not sure if trolling or... but fwiw at Stack Overflow's SRE team we use Go a _lot_. We just open-sourced our latest tool written in Go, DNSControl (https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/), and we have dozens of internal tools and software written in Go.

Not to mention other open-source tools like Grafana, InfluxDB, or Cockroachdb.

I agree with you that Java and JavaScript will reign supreme for years to come. Just pointing out that not all of us think that's a good thing, and there is plenty of variety out there, in the real world.


Sure, and the you from 15 years ago would have written that about VBScript vs Python/ Ruby/ Whatever.


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