u/Particular__Plan

I've been seeing Go mentioned more often lately in job descriptions, backend engineering discussions, DevOps tooling, and cloud-native projects

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A lot of the infrastructure and automation tools people use every day seem to be built with Go in popularity, but when I look at overall language rankings it doesn't always appear near the top compared to Python, JavaScript, or Java..

For people working in the industry, does Go still feel like a language that's gaining adoption, or has it reached a stable plateau??

I am especially interested in:

• Hiring demandd + career opportunities
• Whether companies are actively adopting Go for new projects
• How it compares to Rusts growth trajectory.
• Whether it's worth learning in 2026 from a long-term career perspective

Curious to hear from people using it in production, hiring for Go roles.. or seeing it show up more often in their day-to-day work..

I've seen a lot of conflicting advice lately.

Some people swear by residential networks, others say that's outdated and modern detection is mostly session-level and behavioral now.

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For those working with public data collection, monitoring, research, or aggregation, what actually moves the needle today?

Not looking for bypass tricks.

More interested in how people think about sustainability, compliance, reliability, and whether the future is heading toward verified bots and licensed access instead of the usual cat-and-mouse game.