Which language should I learn? I've been scouring job boards for security engineer positions to see what's in high demand, and these have been the most popular languages I've been seeing. So far I only know Java and a little bit of Swift.

I have a few years of experience as a "web developer" and have primarily worked with Ruby (on Rails) in work due to pretty much all legacy projects being written with it.

Some months ago we've started working with Go to develop a new microservice. I've since then been very into the language and have found myself enjoying more and more its simplicity, backwards compatibility promise/philosophy and overall it's been a very refreshing experience to me who has been introduced to computing with C.

What I've found so far is that Go excels in allowing code to be as simple as it's expected to be. There's just very few reasons to overcomplicate things and create huge abstractions to give the feeling of cleaner code. I don't miss the syntactic sugar and the bloat of features other languages have. The language design was very well thought through from the beginning and I like that they are very selective about what comes in to the language.

And of course there are specific things I love about it, like the error handling 'framework', the typing system, the stdlib, gofmt, etc. The one thing I wish I get to work with more is the concurrency model (channels, goroutines), but I haven't bumped into a good use case yet.

Wondering if others share the same feeling. It seems Go is gaining more popularity and acceptance again and that they're very ready for it

I came to Go from Ruby but I've been writing mainly Go for quite some time now and I forgot how it was to work on a Ruby project. For those doing this daily, with PHP, Python, Ruby, JS, ..., do you feel that there is a huge productivity gap between those languages and Go when dealing with web applications? (server side rendering)

First and foremost, first is in quotes because I already have some basic experience in Python and JS.

Second, please don’t recommend either of those. I don’t have any problem with them, and I know what language you learn to start out doesn’t really matter in the long run. But for the sake of my question, please choose one of the two I asked about (or if you feel strongly about a third, feel free to say).

I’m not completely new to programming, but I’m still fairly novice. I haven’t built really any substantial projects outside of dedicated class assignments, and with the summer ahead of me I’d really like to improve my programming abilities (e.g. get better at “thinking link a programmer”)

Ruby has fascinated me conceptually for a long time and seems very beginner friendly. But I’ve heard that with the amount of “magic” it has it it’s not always great to start with.

I’ve also seen Go recommended to start with, since static typing and compiled languages forge you to learn some important aspects of programming. The syntax also seems somewhat beginner-friendly, but I’m not sure.

I’d love to get some feedback!
Thanks!

I know I'm asking in the rails sub so I'll get some biased answers, but I'm really struggling to decide between dedicating more time to learning Rails, or properly learn Go.

I have a really solid foundation of Ruby, and have made a few small apps with Rails. My Go experience is very limited, like a month of learning maybe.

My concern with Rails is simply the job market for it where I live, but I do love the developer experience of Rails. Go has been good, and I like static typing, but I will say the learning curve has been pretty steep!

A con for Go would be the use cases for it. I'm not sure at this point in my career (2.5 yoe) I'd be expected to solve the type of problems Go is suited for. Also, I want to do more full stack instead of all backend, and Rails seems like a good choice for that move.

Any thoughts on the two would be greatly appreciated :)

Hello everyone. I'm looking to learn to code as a hobby, so I'd like to get into a language that isn't too hard to understand for a beginner. I already studied the basics of Go, but I am very confused on Methods and Interfaces, it seems to me that the concept of Classes makes code easier to understand, so I'm thinking of learning a language that uses that. I'm thinking of trying with Ruby but I wouldn't like to find out that it is just as hard or more than Go. I'd appreciate if anyone could tell me the difference between the two languages.

I know there is probably not a definite answer to this and it will depend on the situation and of course knowing all 3 or 2 of them is better but im wondering which one people would choose to learn now (assuming they no none of those) if they were trying to beef up their devops skills.

Of course im asking for me so will give some details of my own personal context

- Im from a Sysadmin background , so know linux, some shell scripting (although plan to improve this)

- Whilst I have many years experience up to IT Manager level for a corporate I have been out of the industry for quite a while (like 10 years) and want to get back into it. I have been running my own business though and much of that tech based (ecommerce, aws, magento, custom dev on site and administration tools myself etc). So I am quite familiar with latest trends, tech etc but know I need to refresh skills

- Im confident with AWS and have done the Associate Architect and Developer exams (latest versions of both)

- Programming wise I always say that I can program but im not a developer - by which I mean I am not good to a high level but I have created full systems and used them in a live environment , extended platforms like magento, written wordpress plugins and added functionality etc. I no expert but can work with php, javascript, groovy on grails and used to know java (not touched it for a few years so rusty). So im fine with the usual programming concepts etc

- Ive been using and practicing with various tools like docker, cloudformation, ecs, codepipline, codebuild etc and fine with those (still improving) and recently started with terraform, ansible and kubernetes (just beginning on those really) - so I have a good idea of the tools I am looking at learning

The one thing I think I need to add to my learning path is to know a language suitable for devops to a decent level , hence the question. Ive looked at ruby years ago and python a bit and both seem straight forward enough to learn. Just been looking at go today and I kind of like the look of it already - reminds me a bit of java at first glance in parts.

I was wondering though which might be the most useful to have if im looking for a role. Ive seen that ruby is used in a few tools like chef, puppet etc and im wondering if one of the 3 is used in more tools than the others for example. Currently I favor Go both due to pure instinct and the fact that it is newer.

Hey folks,

So - I am/was a Site Reliability Engineer (Junior-level).

Have about 7 years' experience in IT overall, with the last 2.5-3 in the SRE/software space. Was mentored formally at a startup in Go, pushing a couple features to production with my mentor's help.

I was promoted, after some corporate shake-up(almost lost my job) to Jr Backend Engineer, despite this being my first pure software engineer job.

Thought I'd be using my foundational knowledge in Go, especially since the company had decided to become a fully-fledged Go shop - as opposed to Ruby on Rails, Python or whatever multiple languages cobbled together this code base.

Instead, I was forced to learn Ruby on Rails, a language I had never seen before. I'd seen/worked with Java, PHP and some Python in college and personal study, but Ruby is the one language that I couldn't pick out of a line-up prior to that point.

Talk about trial by fire.

So, first time navigating an existing code base, in a new language rather than the one I had expected to master, and I lasted several months before more restructuring rendered the Junior Engineer impractical.

Was an SRE for a brief time after and my contract ended recently.

In addition to getting some AWS cloud certs(CCP and CSA) - and maybe a Kubernetes Associate - as well as brushing up on my SQL with HackerRank, I was considering spending some time in the near future honing my skills as a developer.

Would want to focus on ONE language, at least until I get a job.

My top choice at this point is Go - not that I'm an expert in it, but I already have some foundation and background in it, some Github projects from my time at the startup, and it may be the natural progression. It also tends to be in-demand for SRE and DevOps jobs for it's use in scalability and Cloud integrations...

Could also work on Ruby on Rails, but don't love the language, and it doesn't seem to be growing in demand as much as other languages.

Also considering Java or Python, purely for the job opportunities, and nothing else.

My main question is which should I choose?

• Which has more job opportunities for juniors? This is critical, because otherwise my efforts will be well-intentioned, but useless.

• Which would make more sense given my background, where would my "in" be? My guess is Go or Ruby on Rails and, between those 2, Go would be a preference for me, as I prefer its syntax and it may have more enduring popularity over time.

• Which would position me in the best way for growing as a developer in the industry? Is it Python because of the versatility, or should I just assume I can easily learn that as a secondary language(the same goes for Ruby, a language I know only fairly little)?

Hello there! Which language should I pick first if I want to improve myself as sysadmin and DevOps? I'm engaged in Linux server administration and I need a language for authomatization routine tasks or building useful scripts e.g. for sending notifications about suspicious actions on server. Looks like, I should pick Ruby or Python for scripting, but I'm not sure.

I am not liking JS/TS with express or Nest for backend. I think its better to use it for frontend only.

I have been thinking to opt python for backend like writing APIs and my future plan is to work on cloud and data engineering, probably more cloud. I have seen many videos on YT and read a few posts on reddit but its not clear whether I should choose python or golang based on my future plans. I have no plans for AI btw.

Please share your thoughts on this as I am very confused. Also I believe that if someone is comfortable with golang, he/she should be doing golang and same goes for python. I am comfortable with both. I tried golang and i felt comfortable.

I need to decide based on the market needs and future requirements in the industries and stick to it, not roaming around for days on what to choose. It feels so depressing not land on a language for sure.

Few people says the companies are moving from python to golang, python is much slower, you need imported libraries and in golang these are not an issue. Golang is better in terms of building cloud applications blah blah….

What should I do? Maybe after a few discussions and guidance from the well experienced developers I will be confident on either python or golang.

Hey r/golang,

I just started learning ruby/rails about a month ago and noticed that Go has been picking up a lot of traction these days.

While I enjoy the syntax of ruby and also the rails community, I'm curious if I should look into Go instead. My main interests (aside from learning how to program) are developing web apps. So, am I better off investing into Ruby or Go?

Sorry if my question seems trivial or amateurish, as I mentioned I am still new to web development.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thank you for all your responses, the community here is really great and helpful :)

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More than a versus (it's more striking) I would really like to know what things they have in common and how they differ, what their main advantages are compared to the other and of course their opinion of them. One point to take into account is because they believe that python is more used in AI and Machine learning developments.

Truth be told, i’m no great programmer, but i have some understanding of Ruby, and by extention of Rails. I am seeing a lot of golang passing by and i am wondering if any Ruby programmers made the change to golang? Was it hard? Im just not sure which language i should commit to :)