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> Maybe I live in a bubble but this list just seems divorced from (my) reality. Are you a web developer? Yes, C# and Javascript are all the ads I see for deve
by LandR 9y ago
> Maybe I live in a bubble but this list just seems divorced from (my) reality.
Are you a web developer?
Yes, C# and Javascript are all the ads I see for developer jobs, if I'm looking at web developer jobs.
But doing a search in my area for C/C++ developers and plenty of jobs vacancies come back.
Plenty for Java too, one for Python (from my cursory look, the Python position I saw was the highest paid too, by a good margin).
The whole world doesn't use javascript, some of us want nothing to do with it / avoid it like the plague.
I would agree though, if you just want to play a numbers game it's probably safest to learn JS, C# or Java nowadays if all you care about is getting employed.
- lukev 9y agoThis cuts both ways though. Sure, if you learn Java you'll be likely to find employment. If you learn Java and also Scala and Clojure, and some Haskell and R just to round out your experience, then you will find a much higher paying job regardless of what language you end up doing, because you'll not only be better at programming in a "standard" job but you'll become eligible for more niche, higher-paying positions.