1 year ago

I talk to boatloads of students who are starting to https://boot.dev, and invariably they are hyper-concerned about which programming languages and technologies they should be learning. You don’t fail to break into tech because you learned JavaScript instead of Python, or Go instead of Rust.

Unfortunately, almost everyone I talk to is only concerned with one metric: the total number of jobs for a given technology.

Here was the ratio: JavaScript: 73 Golang: 6 73/6 is the ratio of people searching for “Learn JavaScript” to people searching for “Learn Golang”.

Based on these numbers, I’d estimate that your competition for JavaScript jobs is about 1.4x higher than your competition for Golang jobs.