Why I'm Learning Go in 2026 (A Java/Kotlin/Rust Engineer's Take) (opens in new tab)

Why I'm Learning Go in 2026 (A Java/Kotlin/Rust Engineer's Take) I've spent the better part of six years writing Java and Kotlin in production — FinTech systems, logistics platforms, EdTech backends. Somewhere in the last year I also went deep on Rust, building an AI gateway and a RAG server from scratch. So the obvious question is: why pick up another language? Short answer: because every team I want to work for in 2026 is either already running Go in production, or wishes they were. This po...