Go Language Enquiries

[luohongxian]

Hi,
Anyone here know the prospect of Go Language in Singapore? It's a new programming language. Is the language going to be popular in the near future?

Any advice are welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

[davidktw]

Hi,
Anyone here know the prospect of Go Language in Singapore? It's a new programming language. I am currently considering the SkillsFuture SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Program from the School of Go. Is anyone currently attending this course? Is the language going to be popular in the near future?

Any advice are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Around me I don’t see much use for it. Only observed a couple of products using it which are not developed in Singapore either. Given the current PL landscape in SG, I will say the top popular ones are (not in order),
Java, PHP, C#, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Swift, C/C++

While CS has a wide spectrum of works, most are still very much web related. I didn’t observe Golang getting strong traction in the industry. It is there, but not strong enough to be a leading language yet. Even if we consider webassembly, a leading assembly level for web, I often see Rust mentioned more over Golang used to compiled into webassembly.

I believe you can learn for it could be still useful , but personally I would say don’t bet too much on it to go big time.

 

[FatalityV]

Go is gaining traction in the devops scene.

It's also gaining popularity as a backend language. I know that shopee for one is moving away from python to go.

But generally if you have experience in another programming language learning go is not hard. Go is fairly simple to pick up.

 

[luohongxian]

Go is gaining traction in the devops scene.

It's also gaining popularity as a backend language. I know that shopee for one is moving away from python to go.

But generally if you have experience in another programming language learning go is not hard. Go is fairly simple to pick up.

Thank for sharing, david and FatalityV.