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I wouldn't expect them to want to though. Not because it's a terrible language to program in, just because it's not going to look as good on a resume for later

• protomyth 9y ago
  And that’s the sad part of HR departments hiring by checklist, we develop a monoculture which makes it harder to actually see different ways of solving problems or creates a reinventing the wheel syndrome. There are professions that value people with a range of experience. It is really too bad that software development often isn’t one of them.
• true_religion 9y ago
  Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? Around D.C., there's this tendency for employers to be very open with what languages you've used before. Have you only used Ada? Welcome on-board, though we have no uniforms here. Only used Erlang? Are you guys still saying you can see the whitehouse from your building? And for some reason C#/Java are considered almost the same language, depending on whom you talk to. Honestly, good people are good, and we don't have enough of them to become picky about demanding 5+ years experience in exactly what you are already doing. It'll take a month to onboard someone regardless of if they've used the language or not before.
  • rodgerd 9y ago
    > Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passi...
• probablybroken 9y ago
  Tends to be something more mature developers are better suited to; though there might be higher salary expectations.