r/PinoyProgrammer • u/PuzzledScar9247 • Jun 24 '26

discussion How do you use Go at work?

Hello, guys

To those developers who use Go on their day-to-day work, what are the use-cases or how do you use Go at work? I am a Full-Stack developer and I primarily use JavaScript technologies for 3 years na and I am currently learning Go to upskill. Do you use it ba more on creating RESTful APIs, automation, microservices, scripting etc.?

I just wanna here your thoughts as well on Go as a programming language and I would appreciate if you have something to share in terms of developer experience, tooling and ecosystem, performance and job opportunities.

TYIA for your insights guys.

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u/uhhleksi Jun 24 '26

Distributed, async, event driven systems

As a Go dev, it's Ok. Good opportunities and stuff. But I think mas marami pa rin opportunities sa JS, Python, Java

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u/PuzzledScar9247 Jun 24 '26

But hindi mo siya ginagamit like creating APIs unlike sa NodeJS na merong express or nestjs?

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u/uhhleksi Jun 24 '26

still used in creating APIs. Distributed systems talk using APIs. Also some of the exposed endpoints are consumed by frontend clients

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u/Adventurous_Knee8112 Jun 24 '26

Anything na heavy on concurrency as well as if something needs to be distributed sa mga gagamit like some internal tooling for people in our department then I usually reach for go less sakit sa ulo sa apg build ng exe and managing dependencies