Golang career

[Vinicius Fernandes]

Hello, everyone! I hope you are all doing well.

I would like to receive guidance and tips regarding my career. I am 26 years old and currently work as a Frontend developer (Vue.js), with 4 years of experience.

To enhance my knowledge in Full Stack development, I would like to focus on a Backend language. I was considering Laravel/PHP, but I would like to know if it’s worth it to specialize in Golang instead of delving deeper into Laravel/PHP. This way, my main technologies would be Vue.js and Golang.

However, it will take a good amount of time to specialize, and by then, I will be 28, 29, or 30 years old. Being a junior in Golang at 30 seems a bit old, doesn’t it? You, with much more experience, do you think it’s worth it?

Thank you all very much!

[Rodrick Brown]

I learned go in 1 year at 40 and Rust at 44 go figure  🤣😂 and I'm 45 now 

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[Amnon]

You will probably be able to learn Go in a week.

[Marcello H]

When I was training people in Go, they took 5-7 days (of 8 hours) to learn the basics of Go.
I was about 50 when I "touched" Go for the first time, 60 now :-)

Op woensdag 6 november 2024 om 22:46:35 UTC+1 schreef Amnon:

[Michał Matczuk]

Learning a new language is always a good idea as it exposes you to new concepts and ways of doing things.

Go is quite unique, there are interesting and thought provoking design choices.

It's not too much of an investment to grasp the basics.

Maybe you can give it a shot and decide if you like it/find it useful or not.

The more complex question is should you learn Go in 2024 in your very situation, and what could you be doing instead.

It really depends on you, and what you are interested in.

I'd not say that Go is the best tool for building websites.

[Anderson Queiroz]

Hey,

in terms if it's worth or not, it's a rather personal question. How much you like Go and wanna work with it or do you just wanna add another skill to enhance your employability.

I pretty much learnt Go reading the Effective Go (https://go.dev/doc/effective_go). If you are an experienced software engineer that understands well programming, the fundamentals which are language agnostics, it's more about learning the particularities of the new language.

When I changed to my 1st Go job, I had no formal Go experience and I still joined as a Sr engineer. 

I believe the market for Laravel/PHP and Go are quite different. So again, if you're looking just for a skill to add, considering the market is a good thing. But if you like Go and want work with it, go for it.