Many programmers have fairly strong preferences about programming languages and definitely many people would consider a Go job more desirable than a Java job. Most of those people aren&#x27;t currently Java programmers - it&#x27;s said[1] that Go is largely attracting people from dynamic languages and not from C++&#x2F;Java.<p>[1] 
See this essay from Rob Pike where he says Go is attracting programmers mostly from dynamic languages (though he raises C++ programmers as the chief contrast, but still mentions Java too) : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.fi&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;less-is-exponentially-more.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.fi&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;less-is-exponential...</a>