In all likelihood , everyone making one of those posts had similar experience in those areas before trying anything with Go . The main thing of concern is what you write is that it sounds like you only know one OS Windows , one language C #, one web development framework asp . net . If that ' s true , that will eventually be a big problem for you . When I see resumes like yours , I have to decide Do they have N years of experience or 1 year of experience , repeated N times ? And even if you did do what you say you want to learn Go , if you didn ' t actually use it , I honestly tell you that I might forget that datum about you within seconds of knowing it . Every developer should be continuously learning and deepening their knowledge . I don ' t know what you should be doing you don ' t even list your actual experience or CS background but you cannot stand still . Find an area to go deep in machine learning , visualization , databases , any nonMSFT web framework e . g . , React , Angular , roboticshome automation , join an open source project . Read these articles 8451 t h e t e c h i n d u s t r y s d a rkestsecretitsallaboutage b u s i n e s s t h e p a i n f u l t r u t h a b o utagediscriminationintech . html