spartan37

According to George Orwell - Sheer egoism (be popular etc), Aesthetic enthusiasm (art), Desire to discover something and boast about it, Desire to change the world - are the only motives for achievements.

I will add a few more: Make lots of money and join elite club, To help the needy, To make your people happy, To get yourself out of misery, To have some pleasures for yourself. I hope I haven't duplicated the motives.

So, which of these push you and how much?

I'm just trying to see where Node and Golang are on their popularity and hype curve, comparing them with the popularity enjoyed by Java in the late 90's. Also, I'm trying to decide between Node and Golang to put some serious effort to learn. What are your thoughts?

However, I don't expect any of these two new languages to have the same rapid growth Java had. It just started in 1996 and there was an enterprise ecosystem built around it by 1998 (EJB, Servlets, JDBC) and ruled for about 2 decades already.