One thing I don't like when it comes to Golang jobs - it is rare to see pure software engineering positions. For some reason, most Go jobs requirements include AWS, Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD setup, etc... DevOps stuff, which is not the case for positions in other stacks.
I haven't been able to find a job anywhere, using any language, that didn't require all that stuff these days. I wish I could go back to pure development, but now we all get this entire infra-crap thrown at us too. Which then means... you support the environments, the runtime, and the code. It's a 24/7 world and I don't care for it anymore.
It's like the factorio moment where you unlock the roboport. No more manual changes to the world, drone swarms to build housing, roads, bridges, parks etc. so exciting.
I'm Dutch, the media narrative is a major problem. It's not being honest about the level of relative decline between USA & NL. 20 years of diverging growth rates has had a massive impact. This trend will continue, since NL missed most of the internet, mobile, social and AI startups.
Here in Colorado even people at entry level jobs can afford a nice home. Salaries are way lower in NL, and housing is incredibly expensive.
But the media just doesn't report on it. You don't notice it unless you live in both places. Still a beautiful country though and USA has it's own problems as well.
I'm dutch as well and travel relatively frequently to the US (just came back from Washington DC). I'm not sure I see the impact of this "decline" you seem to notice. Perhaps this is also why the "media narrative" is not reporting on it, since it is not really felt that way?
Housing is expensive and we built far too little in the last decades, but this is also extremely expensive the the areas of the US where you actually want to live (The coastal cities, usually). Besides, this seems to be a global issue you read about everywhere.
I feel that, on average, most things in the Netherlands are of a higher standard — from public infrastructure and transportation to healthcare and the overall quality of everyday things, whether it’s food, trains, hotels, or even the items in your bathroom. Every time I travel back and forth I notice this.
Sure, salaries for certain jobs are much higher in the US, but I wouldn't want to switch except to begin a startup, maybe. I like doing business in the US and would visit for the amazing national parks, but prefer actually living in NL. That said, a rise in salaries and perhaps a more business and capital friendly environment are things I support.
> Salaries are way lower in NL, and housing is incredibly expensive.
This is true, however there is so much that is already paid for with the Dutch salaries that you have to arrange individually in the USA. Mind you a lot is collectively organized which would be impossible to arrange individually to the same level.
I think there are a lot of people in the USA with "entry level jobs" choosing to afford a nice home but perhaps have some other things not as well arranged skewing the observers image, for example working a lot of hours or not having a better health insurance coverage.
In the end I feel like the welfare of the median person in each country is very important and I feel like the NL scores on that way higher when compared to the USA.
For example healthcare, education, infrastructure, food safety etc.
Above the average(note average is not median) you are probably better of in the USA but below the average you are probably better of in NL.
It's stagnation in the headline, not decline. There's a massive difference. European GDP per capita has been roughly 75% of America's for the last 50 years.
Over that same period, American GDP per capita has more than doubled, even after adjusting for inflation.
Which means that European GDP per capita has also more than doubled. 75% of an increasing number is also an increasing number.
A lot of Polish media outlets seem to have completely forgone reporting from abroad. I don't even think it's propaganda, they just lost viewership to the Internet and found that there are cheaper ways to fill the airwaves than news from faraway countries requiring expensive local crews/reporters.
But yes, even many policy wonks / talking heads don't seem to realize the divergence between EU15 and the US since 2007.
There's the founders podcast about Elon Musk. Apparently he stayed in good contact with the Paypal people, even though they fired him and later on that relationship saved Spacex.
After having used it two weeks ago for the first time: it feels as though async support in Python is basically a completely parallel standard library that uses the same python syntax with extra keywords all over the place. It's like if building code compliance required your 50 year old house to be updated have a wider staircase with deeper steps but you wanted to do so without affecting the existing stairs, so now you just have two staircases which are a little bit different and it feels like it takes up space unnecessarily.
I had to look for async versions of most of what I did (e.g. executing external binaries) and use those instead of existing functions or functionality, meaning it was a lot of googling "python subprocess async" or "python http request async".
If there were going to be some kind of Python 4.x in the future, I'd want some sort of inherent, goroutine-esque way of throwing tasks into the ether and then waiting on them if you wanted to. Let people writing code mark functions as "async'able", have Python validate that async'able code isn't calling non-async'able code, and then if you're not in an async runloop then just block on everything instead (as normal).
If I could take code like:
def get_image(image):
return_code = subprocess.check_call(["docker", "pull", image])
if return_code:
raise RuntimeError("idk man it broke")
result = get_image(imagename)
print(result)
And replace it with:
def get_image(image):
return_code = subprocess.check_call(["docker", "pull", image])
if return_code:
raise RuntimeError("idk man it broke")
result = async get_image(imagename)
print(result)
And just have the runtime automatically await the result when I try to access it if it's not complete yet then it would save me thousands of lines of code over the rest of my career trying to parallelize things in cumbersome explicit ways. Perhaps provide separate "async" runners that could handle things - if for example you do explicitly want things running in separate processes, threads, interpreters, etc., so you can set a default async runner, use a context manager, or explicitly threadpool.task(async get_image(imagename)).
You can have this today or 15+ years ago using the excellent gevent library for Python. Python 3 should have just endorsed gevent as the blessed solution instead of adding function coloring and new syntax, but you can blissfully ignore all of that if you use gevent.
The other part of this is the AI wave. Every SAAS company in the world is vulnerable to someone with higher AI driven pace, or better AI features to overtake them.
Even Google is an example, it seemed like the most defensible business. They could coast for years, but now they are literally at risk of losing vs openAI.
I think this is the fear, but I haven’t seen any evidence that AI is making companies more productive. Lots of anecodotes, pro and con, about individual effects, and a small number of studies, pro and con, about company effects, but nothing definitive, and certainly not the kind of groundswell of new products and releases that I would expect.
There are literally subreddits about how to abuse the trust of remote work, but there have always been people doing that. I think the main thing that changed is that amazing revenue multiples that made it possible for companies to ignore these issues are no longer there. Meanwhile the costs of everything, including salaries has skyrocketed. So I think it's lower valuations + higher costs -> more pressure on efficiency. Companies that don't become efficient have their valuation collapse or go under.
well, and let's be honest - most CEOs and boards get the same advice from the same advisors and peers. and the advice since Elon took over Twitter (not that I can say he "started it" but it was around that time I started hearing C-suites say he was right to let everyone go) has been to implement more draconic policies at your software companies.
that interest rates have been higher and liquidity in general has been tight created a perfect storm of bias that these policies are working or could be beneficial. in better times, a company with good funding and a healthy customer base would come through and eat everyone's lunch if their competitors were treating their devs like that. but because of the temporary complete collapse in competition as we've known it, especially amongst startups, this has gone on far longer than it typically would.
it'll get better soon but we've lost an entire generation of technical leadership now (due to burnout and other factors) so it'll be a slow and turbulent recovery.
Valuations are at record highs though. For instance Microsoft stock is at an all time high yet they're instituting RTO (which was clearly not needed to get the stock to the ATH) and an aggressive, anti-employee culture. You can see a lot of this coming from people like Musk who have astronomical valuations, not tied in any way to reality.
go is amazing. switches from python to go 7 years ago. It's the reason our startup did well
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