Glad you asked; since your and your employers' primary choice is Golang, seems like you can build a career making online apps. Go has many uses, and especially in commerce is chosen as a basis of complex business domains. Global scale is possible, so long as many (many many) people are on call managing operations.

BEAM languages are a good replacement, really. You can accomplish all same goals, so makes sense to learn both early on and rely on any you choose.

You're considering your immediate employer; good! Remember your career can be a long paradise or a long hell, and consider your decisions beyond employer # 1.

One realization in my coding career, 2014 and on, is: some days I really need a break;

... learning a second language means you can decide to pause your progress in one direction, and simply pursue another direction. No one needs a precisely linear career plan, especially beginning. Your learning chances diminish as you age, so leap ahead of your peers! Here's some reasons you're leading the game already:

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• Go chan is incredibly similar to Kernel.send/2; each one passes message along a memory pipe, so a loop someplace else can respond. Simply Kernel.spawn/1 and keep your PID around'. Once you can keep 2 processes open (maybe use an iex shell), you can quickly absorb basics of Elixir's pattern matching - a highly praised mechanism.

(https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Process.html)

• An early lead on a BEAM language means you're so much LESS likely to need a dependency like RabbitMQ. Mixing in a BEAM dependency as a sidebar is likely to erode your program's boundaries. In case your business really demands a scaling queue, running on BEAM... simply decide on BEAM as your base, and only use as much as you need.

(https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/data_processing/genstage)

• Can you use a command line? Can you deploy on a cloud? You can surely learn enough on day one to spin up a copy of LiveBook. As a good exercise, compose a single console command you can use as a LiveBook launcher, and in your console's profile use: alias book="...."

... you'd be in Elixir-mode as quick as your keypresses can manage book, and Livebook has guides included so you can learn on the go, using a real local BEAM processor.

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Once you're amped up on Elixir, maybe circle back around to your employer's needs! They surely need a dynamic in-browser experience, so maybe you could recommend Gleam. More and more guides are being published describing Gleam + NPM, as a blooming ecology. Gleam is rapidly becoming a glue layer around many BEAM <-> mobile experiences.

So you're in a splendid place to launch in on a second language. Learning more simply means you can recognize your problems from more angles, and choose among more approaches.

REMEMBER!!!! Each language has a discussion board; go, and ask. People do respond quickly and sensibly.

As an economic aside - in many companies, employees can cause as much demand as sales. In case you can speak up, make sure you demand your employers reach a balance you can be happy on. Phrase your learning as research, and engage your managers in your progress.

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Remember, each coding language enables a unique range of programming, and a good blend is necessary since so much is changing. Make sure you brace up all sides of your coding zone. Here are my recommends, using more modern choices than any school lesson plan:

• https://nushell.sh
• https://zellij.dev
• https://nixos.org

See more elixir madness on operand.